Chapter III, Article 8 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2520

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Article 8Annual surveys in demarcated areas and inspections of sentinel plants#

1.In the demarcated areas, the competent authorities shall carry out intensive annual surveys on the specified 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 Authority’s pest survey card on Aromia bungii and in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 5 of this Article.

2.The surveys shall be carried out in accordance with Article 3(3) and (4) to detect the presence of the specified pest.In order to complement visual examinations, sentinel trees may be used, where appropriate.In addition, targeted destructive sampling shall be carried out by the responsible official body, where appropriate.

3.The survey design shall take into account the Authority’s General guidelines for statistically sound and risk-based surveys and 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 %.

4.In the cases where sentinel plants are used, those plants shall be subject to inspections at least once per month during the flying season. They shall be destroyed and examined, at the latest, before the specified pest is able to complete one full life cycle in the area of the Member State concerned.

5.The results of the surveys carried out pursuant to this Article shall be submitted to the Commission using one of the templates referred to in Annex II.