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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/474 of 18 March 2015 amending Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU on the supervision,            plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material actually in use in the transport of specified commodities            originating in China (notified under document C(2015) 1684)         

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# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/474                     

# of 18 March 2015

# amending Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU on the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging                        material actually in use in the transport of specified commodities originating in China                     

# *(notified under document C(2015) 1684)*

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community                           of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community(1), and in particular the fourth sentence of Article 16(3) thereof,                        

Whereas:

(1)Commission Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU(2) provides for the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material actually in use in                              the transport of specified commodities originating in China.

(2)Application of Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU has shown that the wood packaging material used in the transport of certain                              commodities originating in China continues to present a phytosanitary risk to the Union. Therefore that Decision should continue                              to apply until 31 March 2017.

(3)Plant health checks by Member States have shown that wood packaging material used in the transport of commodities of slate,                              glazed ceramics and flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel was also contaminated by harmful organisms, in particular                              *Anoplophora glabripennis* (Motschulsky). Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU should therefore also cover those commodities.

(4)Commission Implementing Directive 2014/78/EU(3) deleted point (8) of Section I of Part A of Annex IV to Directive 2000/29/EC. Therefore references to that point (8) in Articles                              3 and 4 of Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU should be deleted.

(5)Experience shows that a plant health check at a minimum frequency of 15 % is adequate, taking account of the phytosanitary                              risk of each commodity covered by this Decision, and the need to ensure a more proportionate allocation of resources for the                              effective and efficient checking of all commodities in an equal manner. Therefore, for certain commodities the frequency of                              plant health checks should be reduced from 90 % to 15 %.

(6)Experience shows that, in order to provide further detail on the interceptions recorded on wood packaging material to the                              Chinese national plant protection organisation, it is necessary that Member States report the information necessary to identify                              the sources of unreliable marking and the reasons why a mark is considered incorrect.

(7)In order to allow consistency as regards the plant health checks carried out in the period from 1 October 2014 to 31 March                              2015 and the notification thereof, it is appropriate to provide for a transitional arrangement for that period.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

# Article 1U.K.

Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU is amended as follows:

The first paragraph of Article 3 is replaced by the following:

‘The wood packaging material of consignments of the specified commodities shall be subject to the plant health checks provided                                 for in Article 13a(1)(b)(iii) of Directive 2000/29/EC at the minimum frequencies set out in Annex I to this Decision to confirm                                 that the wood packaging material meets the requirements laid down in point (2) of Section I of Part A of Annex IV to Directive                                 2000/29/EC.’                           

Article 4 is replaced by the following:

## ‘Article 4Measures in case of non-compliance

Where the plant health checks referred to in Article 3 show that point (2) of Section I of Part A of Annex IV to Directive                                 2000/29/EC is not complied with or that the wood packaging material is contaminated by harmful organisms listed in Part A                                 of Annex I to that Directive, the Member State concerned shall immediately subject the non-compliant wood packaging material                                 to one of the measures provided for in Article 13c(7) of that Directive’.                           

Article 5 is replaced by the following:

## ‘Article 5Reporting

Without prejudice to Commission Directive 94/3/EC(4), Member States shall notify the number and the results of the plant health checks carried out in accordance with Articles                                 2 and 3 of this Decision to the Commission using the reporting template in Annex II by 31 July 2016 for the period from 1                                 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 and by 31 July 2017 for the period from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017.’                           

The second paragraph of Article 7 is replaced by the following:

‘Articles 1 to 4 shall apply until 31 March 2017.’                           

Annexes I and II are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

# Article 2U.K.

As regards plant health checks carried out during the period from 1 October 2014 to 31 March 2015 and the notification of                     the number and the results thereof, Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU as it stood before being amended by this Decision shall                     continue to apply.                  

# Article 3U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 18 March 2015.

*For the Commission*                            

Vytenis Andriukaitis                            

*Member of the Commission*                            

## ANNEXU.K.

Annex I to Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU is replaced by the following:

### “ANNEX I**SPECIFIED COMMODITIES**

Annex II to Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU is replaced by the following:

### “‘ANNEX II**REPORTING TEMPLATE**

1

OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1.                           

2

Commission Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU of 18 February 2013 on the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be                              taken on wood packaging material actually in use in the transport of specified commodities originating in China (OJ L 47, 20.2.2013, p. 74).                           

3

Commission Implementing Directive 2014/78/EU of 17 June 2014 amending Annexes I, II, III, IV and V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC                              on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against                              their spread within the Community (OJ L 183, 24.6.2014, p. 23).                           

4

Commission Directive 94/3/EC of 21 January 1994 establishing a procedure for the notification of interception of a consignment                              or a harmful organism from third countries and presenting an imminent phytosanitary danger (OJ L 32, 5.2.1994, p. 37).’