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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1809 of 13 October 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 on measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1809 of 13 October 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 on measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1809 of 13 October 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 on measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)
C/2021/7338
OJ L 365, 14.10.2021, p. 41–45
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
In force
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Official Journal of the European Union |
L 365/41 |
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/1809
of 13 October 2021
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 on measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)
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/EC (1), and in particular Article 30 thereof,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (2), and in particular Article 22(3) and Article 52 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) |
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 (3) sets out measures on the introduction into, and movement within, the Union of plants for planting of Solanum lycopersicum L. and Capsicum spp. As experience with the implementation of that Regulation has shown, also the hybrids of Solanum lycopersicum L. should be included in the scope of those measures, because those hybrids are also susceptible to Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) (‘the specified pest’). |
(2) |
In order to appropriately manage the plant health risk and apply the necessary measures to the most risky plant material, it is appropriate to replace the definition of ‘specified plants for planting’ with the definition of ‘specified plants’, covering all plants of Solanum lycopersicum L. and its hybrids and of Capsicum spp, also those which are not meant to be replanted, unless otherwise specified. That definition should exclude specified seeds and specified fruits, for which specific definitions exist. However, those definitions should be amended accordingly in order to include hybrids of Solanum lycopersicum L. |
(3) |
Since the adoption of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191, an audit series carried out by the Commission in 2020 and 2021 has shown that the implementation of eradication measures has been inconsistent. It is therefore necessary to introduce specific rules for the establishment of demarcated areas and the measures to be taken there. Those rules should also make a distinction between production sites with physical protection and other production sites, due to the different phytosantary risk that they present. |
(4) |
It should be specified that the testing of mother plants should take place at the shortest possible time prior to the harvest of the fruits, because experience since the adoption of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 has shown that this is necessary to ensure that fruits from which seeds are extracted, are free from the specified pest. |
(5) |
During plant health checks conducted on the basis of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 Member States have detected a high number of infected consignments originating in China and Israel. For this reason, based on a different rate of interceptions recorded in the Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) (4) since 2020, the testing frequency at import of those consignments should be increased to 50 % for seeds or plants for planting originating in Israel and to 100 % for seeds originating in China. |
(6) |
In order to have time to verify the implementation of the new measures and to ensure a continued protection of the Union territory from the introduction and spread of the specified pest, the application period of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 should be extended until 31 May 2023. |
(7) |
Following the replacement of the definition of ‘specified plants for planting’ with ‘specified plants’, some consequential changes need to be made to the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191. |
(8) |
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 should therefore be amended accordingly. |
(9) |
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, |
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 is amended as follows:
(1) |
in Article 1, points (b), (c) and (d) are replaced by the following:
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(2) |
Article 4 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 4 Measures concerning the confirmed presence of the specified pest 1. Where the presence or the suspected presence of the specified pest is officially confirmed in the territory of a Member State, the competent authority of the Member State concerned shall ensure that appropriate measures are taken to eradicate the specified pest in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. In addition, that competent authority shall take the measures laid down in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, unless the conditions of Article 18(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 are fulfilled with regards to the specified pest. 2. The competent authority shall without delay establish a demarcated area as follows:
3. In the demarcated area, the competent authority, or the professional operator under the official supervision of the competent authority, shall:
4. The competent authorities may abolish a demarcated area and terminate the respective eradication measures, where following sampling and testing of the specified plants of a successive crop, the site has been found free from the specified pest for a period of at least 6 months after the planting of those plants.’; |
(3) |
in Article 7(1), first subparagraph, point (b) is replaced by the following:
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(4) |
in Article 9(1), point (a), point (ii) is replaced by the following:
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(5) |
Article 10 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 10 Official checks on introduction into the Union No less than 20 % of the consignments of specified seeds and specified plants for planting shall be sampled and tested by the competent authority at the border control posts of first arrival into the Union, or at a control point as referred to in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2123 (*1), as set out in the Annex to this Regulation. For consignments of specified seeds and specified plants for planting originating in Israel that sampling and testing rate shall be 50 % and for consignments of specified seeds originating in China it shall be 100 %. (*1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2123 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for the cases where and the conditions under which identity checks and physical checks on certain goods may be performed at control points and documentary checks may be performed at distance from border control posts (OJ L 321, 12.12.2019, p. 64).’;" |
(6) |
in Article 12, the date ‘31 May 2022’ is replaced by ‘31 May 2023’; |
(7) |
the Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex of this Regulation. |
Article 2
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 13 October 2021.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYEN
(1) OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4.
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 of 11 August 2020 establishing measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1615 (OJ L 262, 12.8.2020, p. 6).
(4) https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/traces_en
ANNEX
The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 is amended as follows:
(1) |
point 2 is replaced by the following:
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(2) |
in point 4, the heading and the introductory phrase are replaced by the following:
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