Epidemiological unitmeans a homogeneous area where the interactions between the pest, the host plants and the abiotic and biotic factors and conditions would result into the same epidemiology, should the pest be present.
host plantsmeans all plants for planting, other than seeds, belonging to the genera or species listed in Annex I;
Inspection unitmeans plants, plant parts, commodities, materials, pest vectors that had been scrutinised for identifying and detecting the pests.
Method sensitivitymeans the probability of a method to correctly detect pest presence.
specified pestmeans Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.) and any of its subspecies;
specified plantsmeans host plants for planting, other than seeds, belonging to the genera or species listed in Annex II and known to be susceptible to the specific subspecies of the specified pest;
vectormeans Cicadomorpha insects known to transmit the specified pest to plants, or any other insect suspected of transmitting the specified pest to plants.