(1)

Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 lays down specific rules relating to, inter alia, the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods for placing on the market in Northern Ireland for the final consumer, including specific rules for consignments of rest-of-the-world retail goods.

(2)

More specifically, Article 9(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 provides that rest-of-the-world retail goods consisting of commodities of animal or plant origin or composite products subject to the animal health or plant health rules referred to in Article 1(2), points (d), (e) and (g), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) (‘rest-of-the-world commodities’) may enter into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom and be placed on the market in Northern Ireland in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 only if the United Kingdom provides written evidence that the import conditions and official controls requirements provided for in Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 (3), (EU) 2016/429 (4) and (EU) 2016/2031 (5) of the European Parliament and of the Council, in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, and in the Commission acts adopted pursuant to those Regulations apply to those commodities under the national law of the United Kingdom, and those import conditions and official controls requirements are effectively implemented by the United Kingdom.

(3)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 (6) establishes, in the Annex thereto, the list of rest-of-the-world commodities which may enter into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom and be placed on the market in Northern Ireland, which currently lists goods of animal and of non-animal origin.

(4)

By letters dated 11 October 2024 and 28 April 2025, the United Kingdom provided the written evidence that the import conditions and official controls requirements laid down in Regulations (EU) 2016/2031 and (EU) 2017/625 and in the Commission acts adopted pursuant to those Regulations and related to fresh roses from all third countries, apply under its national law, and that those import conditions and official controls requirements related to fresh roses are effectively implemented by the United Kingdom as from 26 April 2025. It is therefore appropriate to amend the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 to add those goods to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities.

(5)

In the interest of legal certainty and to avoid any unnecessary disruption to trade, this Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency.

(6)

As the United Kingdom has provided the written evidence that the plant health rules referred to in Article 9(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 are effectively implemented as from 26 April 2025 to fresh roses, and to avoid any unnecessary disruption to trade, this Regulation should thus apply retroactively from that date.

(7)

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