2006/749/EC: Commission Decision of 31 October 2006 amending Decision 2004/4/EC authorising Member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt (notified under document number C(2006) 5109)
Date: 2006-10-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Egypt, health control, originating product, plant disease, plant health legislation, potato

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 31 October 2006

amending Decision 2004/4/EC authorising Member States temporarily to take emergency measures
against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt

(notified under document number C(2006) 5109)

(2006/749/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 Article 16(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Under Commission Decision 2004/4/EC (2),
tubers of
Solanum tuberosum L., originating in Egypt, must not in
principle be introduced into the Community. However,
for the 2005/2006 import season the entry into the
Community of such tubers was permitted from ‘pest-
free areas’ and subject to specific conditions.

During the 2005/2006 import season, a small number of
interceptions of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith
were recorded.

That

report

details

Egypt has submitted a report into the causes of these
stricter
interceptions.
measures which have been taken by Egypt as regards
the ‘pest free areas’ and exporters involved in those inter-
ceptions. Certain areas have been taken off the list of
‘pest free areas’ for the 2006/2007 import season. Two
of the exporters involved have been formally warned and

further

(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 2, 6.1.2004, p. 50. Decision as last amended by Decision

2005/840/EC (OJ L 312, 29.11.2005, p. 63).

one exporter has been banned from exporting in the
2006/2007 season.

In the light of the information provided by Egypt, the
Commission has established that
there is no risk of
spreading Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith with
the entry into the Community of
tubers of Solanum
from ‘pest-free areas’ of Egypt, provided
tuberosum L.
that specific conditions are satisfied.

The entry into the Community of tubers of Solanum
tuberosum L., originating in ‘pest-free areas’ of Egypt,
should therefore be permitted for
the 2006/2007
import season.

Decision 2004/4/EC should therefore be
accordingly.

amended

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on Plant Health,

the

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

of

opinion

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2004/4/EC is amended as follows:

1. Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a)

in paragraph 1, ‘2005/2006’ is replaced by ‘2006/2007’;

(b) in paragraph 2,

‘import season 2005/2006’ is replaced

by ‘import season referred to in paragraph 1’.

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2. In Article 3,

‘2005/2006 import season’
‘import season referred to in Article 2(1)’.

is replaced by

(c)

in point 1(b)(xii),
‘1 January 2007’;

‘1 January 2006’

is

replaced by

3. In Article 4,

2007’.

‘30 August 2006’

is replaced by ‘31 August

(d) in the second paragraph of point 5,

‘import season
is replaced by ‘import season referred to

2005/2006’
in Article 2(1)’.

4. In Article 7,

‘30 September 2007’.

‘30 September 2006’

is

replaced by

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

5. The Annex is amended as follows:

(a)

point
in
‘2006/2007’;

1(b)(iii),

‘2005/2006’

is

replaced

by

(b) in the second indent of point 1(b)(iii), ‘1 January 2006’ is

replaced by ‘1 January 2007’;

Done at Brussels, 31 October 2006.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission