Decision No. 1104/2012/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Decision 2008/971/EC to include forest reproductive material of the ‘qualified’ category and to update the name of the authorities responsible for the approval and control of the production.

This Decision modifies the definition of the scope of Decision 2008/971/EC. It soecifies that those provisions determine the conditions under which forest reproductive material of the source identified, selected and qualified categories produced in a third country listed in Annex I may be imported into the European Union. Furthermore, this Decision stipulates that when seed and planting stock enter the European Union, the supplier importing this material shall inform the official body of that Member State in advance of the import.