2006/564/EC: Commission Decision of 11 August 2006 amending Decision 2003/766/EC on emergency measures to prevent the spread within the Community of Diabrotica virgifera Le Conte (notified under document number C(2006) 3582)
Date: 2006-08-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: maize, parasitology, plant disease, plant health control, plant health legislation, protection of plant life

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 August 2006

amending Decision 2003/766/EC on emergency measures to prevent

the spread within the

Community of Diabrotica virgifera Le Conte

(notified under document number C(2006) 3582)

(2006/564/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

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 the fourth sentence of Article 16(3) thereof,

(4)

(5)

Whereas:

The implementation of
the emergency measures laid
down in Decision 2003/766/EC was evaluated by the
Standing Committee on Plant Health on several
occasions during 2005.
the
emergency measures for eradication of the organism in
areas where the organism was previously not known to
occur should be supplemented by containment measures
in all other areas.

It was concluded that

Decision 2003/766/EC should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on Plant Health,

the

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

of

opinion

Commission Decision 2003/766/EC (2) requires Member
States to take emergency measures against the dissemi-
nation of Diabrotica virgifera Le Conte (hereinafter referred
to as the organism) as regards areas, other than those in
which it is known to occur.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2003/766/EC is amended as follows:

(1)

(2)

On the basis of assessments by the Food and Veterinary
Office in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in Member States and
additional
information from official surveys carried out
in 2004 and 2005 by Member States, it would appear
that the organism is established in some areas within the
Community. However, a major part of Community
territory remains free from the organism.

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

last amended by

Commission Directive 2006/35/EC (OJ L 88, 25.3.2006, p. 9).

(2) OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 49.

1. The following Articles 4a and 4b are inserted:

‘Article 4a

1. When the results of the surveys referred to in Article 2
during more than two consecutive years have confirmed the
presence of the organism in a part of their territory, Member
States shall define zones, covering that part of their territory
where the organism was found (“infested zones”).

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2. Member States shall either apply the provisions of
Article 4 or,
in case there is evidence that the organism
can no longer be eradicated, organise programmes on a
yearly basis in the infested zones and their vicinity to limit
the spread of the organism from the infested zones into
from the organism (“containment
areas
that are
programmes”).

free

Article 4b

In maize fields in a zone of at least 2 500 m around the
runways or any other areas where aircraft move within an
airport where there is evidence that the risk for introduction
of the organism is high, the following measures shall be
taken:

2. In Article 5, the following indents are added:

‘— the areas of the zones referred to in Article 4a(1) and

any changes therein,

— the containment programmes referred to in Article 4a(2)

and any changes therein.’.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

— crop rotation in such way that maize is only grown once

during any period of two consecutive years, or

Done at Brussels, 11 August 2006.

— an intensive monitoring for the presence of the organism
using appropriate sex pheromone traps is carried out
and, when the organism is detected, measures are taken
according to Articles 3 and 4.’.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission