The Commission is required pursuant to Article 16(1) of Directive 92/33/EEC to decide whether vegetable propagating and planting material, other than seed, produced in a third country and affording the same guarantees as regards obligations on the supplier, identity, characteristics, plant health, growing medium, packaging, inspection arrangements, marking and sealing, is equivalent in all these respects to vegetable propagating and planting material other than seed produced in the Community and complying with the requirements and conditions of that Directive.
V skladu s členom 16(1) Direktive 92/33/EGS mora Komisija odločiti, ali je razmnoževalni in sadilni material zelenjadnic razen semena, ki je pridelan v tretji državi in zagotavlja enaka jamstva glede obveznosti dobavitelja, istovetnosti, značilnosti, zdravstvenega stanja rastlin, načina pridelave, pakiranja, nadzora, označevanja in ožigosanja, v vseh teh pogledih enakovreden razmnoževalnemu in sadilnemu materialu zelenjadnic razen semena, pridelanemu v Skupnosti in v skladu z zahtevami in pogoji navedene direktive.