2002/947/EC: Commission Decision of 2 December 2002 amending Decision 93/467/EEC authorising Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC, in respect of oak (Quercus L.) logs with bark attached, originating in Canada or the United States of America (notified under document number C(2002) 4761)
Date: 2002-12-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Canada, United States, derogation from EU law, originating product, plant disease, plant health control, plant health legislation, wood product

5.12.2002

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 2 December 2002

amending Decision 93/467/EEC authorising Member States to provide for derogations from certain
provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC, in respect of oak (Quercus L.) logs with bark attached,
originating in Canada or the United States of America

(notified under document number C(2002) 4761)

(2002/947/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000
the introduction into the
on protective measures against
Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products
their spread within the Community (1), as last
and against
amended by Commission Directive 2002/36/EC (2), and in
particular Article 15(1) thereof,

Having regard to the request made by Germany,

Whereas:

Pursuant to the provisions of Directive 2000/29/EC, oak
(Quercus L.) logs with bark attached, originating in North
American countries, may not, in principle, be introduced
into the Community because of the risk of introducing
Ceratocystis fagacearum (Bretz) Hunt., the cause of oak
wilt.

Commission Decision 93/467/EEC (3), as last amended
by Decision 2000/780/EC (4), authorises derogations for
oak (Quercus L.) logs with bark attached originating in
Canada and the United States of America provided that
special conditions are satisfied.

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

The authorisation should therefore be extended for a
further limited period, without prejudice to Commission
Decision 2002/757/EC of 19 September 2002 on provi-
sional emergency phytosanitary measures to prevent the
introduction into and the spread within the Community
of Phytophthora ramorum Werres, De Cock & Man in 't
Veld sp. nov. (5).

Decision 93/467/EEC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The Commission will request Canada and the United
States of America to supply the technical
information
necessary to continue monitoring the functioning of the
protective measures required under the technical condi-
tions.

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accor-
dance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
Plant Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The authorisation provided for in the Decision expires
on 31 December 2002.

Decision 93/467/EEC is amended as follows:

circumstances

The
obtain.

justifying the authorisation still

(1) OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 116, 3.5.2002, p. 16.
(3) OJ L 217, 27.8.1993, p. 49.
(4) OJ L 309, 9.12.2000, p. 35.

1.

2.

in Article 3,
December 2004’;

‘31 December 2002’

is replaced by ‘31

in Annex I, part 7, ‘2000/780/EC’ is replaced by ‘93/467/
EEC, as amended by Decision 2002/947/EC’.

(5) OJ L 252, 20.9.2002, p. 37.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 2 December 2002.

For the Commission

David BYRNE

Member of the Commission