Chapter III, Article 8 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1952

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Article 8Annual surveys in demarcated areas#

1.In the demarcated areas, the competent authorities shall carry out intensive annual surveys on the host plants, as referred to in Article 19(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, to detect the presence of the specified pest taking into account the information referred to in the pest survey card and in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 5 of this Article.

2.Where appropriate, the competent authority shall carry out targeted destructive sampling.

3.In the cases where sentinel plants are used, those specified plants shall be subject to inspections at least once per month. They shall be destroyed and examined, at the latest, before the specified pest is able to complete one full life cycle in the area as determined by the competent authority concerned.

4.The survey design shall take into account the Authority’s General guidelines for statistically sound and risk-based surveys. The survey design and sampling scheme used for detection surveys shall be able to identify with at least 95 % of confidence, a level of presence of the specified pest of 1 %.

5.The competent authority shall carry out annual surveys at appropriate times for the presence of the specified pest through inspections on host plants, within at least a width of 1 km of a treatment or processing facility of specified wood and wood packaging material and bark.