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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/ECnote, and in particular Article 42(4), first subparagraph, thereof,Whereas:
(1)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019note establishes, on the basis of a preliminary risk assessment, a list of high risk plants, plant products and other objects.
(2)Following a preliminary assessment, 34 genera and one species of plants for planting originating from third countries were provisionally listed in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as high risk plants. That list includes the genus Prunus L.
(3)On 4 March 2020, Moldova submitted to the Commission a request for export to the Union of the following plants for planting of Prunus L.: up to 2-year-old bare-rooted, grafted, free of leaves plants for planting of Prunus armeniaca, Prunus avium, Prunus cerasus, Prunus domestica, Prunus dulcis, Prunus persica, and Prunus salicina, with a maximum diameter of 17 mm at the base of the stem, and up to 2-year-old bare-rooted, free of leaves, rootstocks of Prunus armeniaca, Prunus avium, Prunus canescens, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus cerasus, Prunus davidiana, Prunus domestica, Prunus dulcis, Prunus fontanesiana, Prunus persica, Prunus salicina, Prunus tomentosa and hybrids between the above species, with a maximum diameter of 17 mm at the base of the stem, originating in Moldova (‘the relevant plants’). That request was supported by the relevant technical dossiers.
(4)On 1 February 2024, the European Food Safety Authority (‘the Authority’) adopted a scientific opinion regarding the risk assessment of the relevant plantsnote. The Authority identified Erwinia amylovora, Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni and Xiphinema rivesi (non-EU populations) as pests relevant for those plants, evaluated the risk mitigation measures described in the dossier and estimated the likelihood of freedom of the relevant plants from those pests.
(5)Erwinia amylovora and Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni are listed as both protected zone quarantine pests and Union regulated non-quarantine pests in Annexes III and IV to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072note, respectively, while Xiphinema rivesi (non-EU populations) is listed as a Union quarantine pest in Annex II to that Regulation.
(6)On the basis of the opinion of the Authority, the phytosanitary risk arising from the introduction into the Union territory of the relevant plants is considered acceptable, provided the corresponding special requirements in Annexes VII and X to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 are complied with.
(7)Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(8)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee for Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1#
The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2#
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
In the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019, in the table of point 1, in the second column ‘Description’, the entry for ‘Prunus L., is replaced by the following:
‘Prunus L., other than:
—bare-rooted, dormant, free of leaves plants for planting of Prunus domestica grafted on Prunus cerasifera rootstocks, originating in Ukraine;
—up to 2-year-old dormant, free of leaves, unrooted cuttings of Prunus persica and Prunus dulcis, originating in Türkiye;
—up to 2-year-old bare-rooted, dormant, free of leaves plants for planting of Prunus persica, Prunus dulcis, Prunus armeniaca and Prunus davidiana, originating in Türkiye; and
—up to 2-year-old bare-rooted, free of leaves, plants for planting of Prunus armeniaca, Prunus avium, Prunus canescens, Prunus cerasifera, Prunus cerasus, Prunus davidiana, Prunus domestica, Prunus dulcis, Prunus fontanesiana, Prunus persica, Prunus salicina, Prunus tomentosa and hybrids between the above species, with a maximum diameter of 17 mm at the base of the stem, originating in Moldova.’.
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