G/SPS/N/EU/272/Add.2  
 
8 January 2019  
(19-0094) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 8 January 2019 , is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of  the European Union . 
 
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High risk plants and plants exempted from phytosanitary certificate  
The proposal  notified in G/SPS/N/EU/272 (26 September 2018) was adopted as Commission 
Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 establishing a provisional list of high risk plants, plant 
products or other objects, within the meaning of Article 42 of Regulation (EU) 2016/ 2031 and a list 
of plants for which phytosanitary certificates are not required for introduction into the Union, within 
the meaning of Article 73 of that Regulation [OJ L 323, 19 December 2018, p. 10 -15]. 
https://eur -lex.europa.eu/legal -
content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2018.323.01.0010.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2018:323:TOC  
This Regulation establishes:  
 a list of high risk plants  which introduction is prohibited until, when a demand for import exist, a 
complete risk assessment has been carried out;  
 a list of fruits that are exempted from being accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate at import 
into the Union territory.  
This Regu lation shall apply from 14 December 2019.  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/19_0162_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/EEC/19_0162_00_f.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/20 19/SPS/EEC/19_0162_00_s.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and /or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in  the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  G/SPS/N/EU/272/Add.2  
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit D2 -Multilateral International Relations  
Rue Froissart 101, B -1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 295 4263  
Fax: +(32 2) 299 8090  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
European Commission  
DG Health and Food Safety, Unit D2 -Multilateral Internati onal Relations  
Rue Froissart 101, B -1049 Brussels  
Tel: +(32 2) 295 4263  
Fax: +(32 2) 299 8090  
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu  
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