Council Directive 2005/15/EC of 28 February 2005 amending Annex IV to 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
Date: 2005-02-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: import, packaging product, plant health control, plant health legislation, protection of plant life

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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2005/15/EC

of 28 February 2005

amending Annex IV to 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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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
their spread within the Community (1), and in
and against
particular point
the second paragraph of Article 14
thereof,

(d) of

Having regard to the proposal of the Commission,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Directive 2004/102/EC (2) amends Annexes II, III, IV and
V to Directive 2000/29/EC and is to be implemented by
the Member States by 1 March 2005.

Directive 2004/102/EC contains provisions related to
wood and wood products. The measures related to
pallets, boxes and dunnage align Community measures
with the FAO International Standard for Phytosanitary
Measures (ISPM) No 15 on ‘Guidelines for regulating
in international trade’ which
wood packaging material
was adopted in March 2002 by the Fourth Interim
Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (ICPM).

Standard No 15 describes
that wood packaging
(including dunnage) made of coniferous and non-coni-
ferous raw wood, should be subjected to approved
measures such as heat treatment (56 °C for a minimum
of 30 minutes) or fumigation with Methyl Bromide.
Moreover the wood should display a specified mark to
certify that the wood has been subjected to an approved
measure.

The Standard also provides that countries may require
that imported wood packaging material subjected to an
approved measure be made from debarked wood and
display a mark subject to ‘technical justification’.

(1) OJ L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1. Directive as

last amended by
Commission Directive 2004/102/EC (OJ L 309, 6.10.2004, p. 9).

(2) OJ L 309, 6.10.2004, p. 9.

Third countries have requested that
the Community
consider alternative methods of achieving the same
goal. To this end, research is under way on technical
aspects of debarking wood,
in particular the efficiency
risk reduction’ of debarking in addition to
of
treatment measures.

‘pest

(6) While awaiting the results of that research, it is appro-
priate to postpone for debarked wood, the application of
the requirement to be used.

(7)

(8)

Directive 2000/29/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The Standing Committee on Plant Health has not
delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
Chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

Article 1

Directive 2000/29/EC is amended as follows:

1. In Annex IV, Part A, section I, point 2,

paragraph shall be added at
column:

the end of

the following
the right hand

‘The first indent, requiring wood packaging material to be
made from debarked round wood, shall only apply from
1 March 2006.’

2. In Annex IV, Part A, section I, point 8,

paragraph shall be added at
column:

the end of

the following
the right hand

‘The first line of point (a), requiring wood packaging material
to be made from debarked round wood, shall only apply
from 1 March 2006.’

Article 2

1. Member States shall adopt and publish, not later than
28 February 2005,
the laws, regulations and administrative
provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall
forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those
provisions and a correlation table between these provisions and
this Directive.

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They shall apply these provisions from 1 March 2005.

Article 3

When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall contain
a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such a
reference on the occasion of
their official publication. The
methods of making such reference shall be laid down by the
Member States.

This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 28 February 2005.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the
text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in
the field covered by this Directive.

For the Council
The President

F. BODEN