(1)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 (3) establishes a list of Union quarantine pests, protected zone quarantine pests and Union regulated non-quarantine pests (‘RNQPs’). It further sets out requirements for the introduction into, and movement within, the Union of certain plants, plant products and other objects in order to prevent the entry, establishment and spread of those pests in the Union territory.

(2)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 has been amended recently by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2285 (4) to update the phytosanitary status of certain pests and, where appropriate, amend the specific measures against those pests. For reasons of consistency regarding the amendments concerning those pests, the new elements should also be reflected in Commission Directive 93/49/EEC (5) and in Commission Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU (6).

(3)

Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae Takikawa, Serizawa, Ichikawa, Tsuyumu & Goto has been listed in Part D of Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 in relation to propagating material of ornamental plants, because it fulfils the requirements to be listed as an RNQP. It is therefore justified to list that pest in the Annex to Directive 93/49/EEC.

(4)

Phytophthora ramorum (EU isolates) Werres, De Cock & Man in ‘t Veld has been listed in Parts D and J of Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 in relation to propagating material of ornamental plants and fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production respectively, because it fulfils the requirements to be listed as an RNQP. It is therefore justified to list that pest in the Annex to Directive 93/49/EEC and in Annex II to Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU.

(5)

It is also necessary to include measures in Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU against the presence of Phytophthora ramorum (EU isolates) Werres, De Cock & Man in ‘t Veld on certain plants for planting used as fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production.

(6)

Candidatus Phytoplasma australiense Davis et al. has been listed as a Union quarantine pest in Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 and removed from the list of RNQPs of Annex IV to that Regulation. Therefore, that pest should also be removed from the list of RNQPs of Annex I to Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU and from Annex IV to that Directive in relation to fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production of Fragaria L.

(7)

Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU sets out the requirement that pre-basic, basic, certified and Conformitas Agraria Communitatis (CAC) material, by visual inspection in the facilities, fields and lots, is to be found free from the RNQPs listed in Annexes I and II to that Directive, and subject to the requirements of Annex IV, as regards the genus or species concerned.

(8)

To ensure consistency with Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards the areas established as pest free, an exception from the requirement for visual inspection, sampling and testing of pre-basic, basic, certified and CAC material should also be introduced in Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU.

(9)

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/925 (7) has temporarily authorised certain Member States to certify pre-basic material which belongs to certain species of fruit plants and produced in the open field under non-insect proof conditions. The authorisation that was granted to France in this regards expired on 31 December 2018. The part ‘Requirements with regard to the production site, place of production or area’ in Section 4 of Annex IV to Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU, in regards to pre-basic material of Cydonia oblonga Mill. should therefore be deleted to reflect the expiry of the validity of that authorisation.

(10)

Since the adoption of Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU, Member States’ experience has shown that the measures against Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri Seemüller & Schneider for disqualifying entire lots of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants from marketing upon detection of symptomatic propagating material and fruit plants in the production site are disproportionate to the respective phytosanitary risk. Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU should be amended to ensure consistency with the revised risk management measures in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 against Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri Seemüller & Schneider. Any symptomatic propagating material and fruit plants should be rogued out and destroyed immediately.

(11)

In accordance with Article 32 of Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU, Member States are allowed to authorise, until 31 December 2022, the marketing in their own territory of propagating material and fruit plants produced from pre-basic, basic and certified mother plants or from CAC material which existed before 1 January 2017 even if that material or those fruit plants do not fulfil the requirements of that Implementing Directive. Member States’ experience with the implementation of the legislation has shown that the scope of the Union certification scheme for propagating material and fruit plants does not cover the certification of seeds and seedlings. Therefore, the current transitional measures should continue to apply only to the production of seeds and seedlings, because of the time required for those materials to adapt to the requirements of that Directive. In order to avoid any disruption of trade of those materials, that date should be extended until 31 December 2029.

(12)

The botanical name of Prunus amygdalus Batsch should be changed into Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb to take account of developments in taxonomic nomenclature.

(13)

Therefore, Directive 93/49/EEC and Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU should be amended respectively.

(14)

The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,