Beet: marketing of seeds (codif. Directive 66/400/EEC)

PURPOSE : to consolidate Directive 66/400/EEC on the marketing of beet seeds. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Council Directive 2002/54/EC on the marketing of beet seed. CONTENT : for reasons of clarity and rationality, this Directive aims to consolidate Directive 66/400/EEC, modified on several occasions since its adoption. The new directive replaces the various directives which are the subject of the codification procedure. It respects the substance of the codified texts completely and is restricted to gathering them in a single text while making only formal amendments required by the procedure of codification. ENTRY INTO FORCE : 9 August, 2002.�