2008/644/EC: Commission Decision of 25 July 2008 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(2008) 3813)
Date: 2008-07-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: parasitology, plant disease, plant health control, plant health legislation, protection of plant life

6.8.2008

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Official Journal of the European Union

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(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

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DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 25 July 2008

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(2008) 3813)

(2008/644/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 the fourth sentence of Article 16(3) thereof,

(3)

(4)

of two years may be sufficient to eradicate it. It should
therefore be provided for that those measures may be
limited to a period of two years, where appropriate.

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

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(1)

(2)

Commission Decision 2003/766/EC (2) requires Member
States to take emergency measures against the dissemi­
nation within the Community of Diabrotica virgifera Le
Conte (hereinafter referred to as ‘the organism’).

Decision 2003/766/EC is amended as follows:

Article 1

The implementation of
the emergency measures was
evaluated by the Standing Committee on Plant Health
of 26 and 27 February 2008 on the basis of information
from official surveys carried out by Member States in
2007. It was concluded that in the case of emergency
measures for the eradication of the organism in areas
where only a very limited number of specimens of the
organism were found, measures applied during a period

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

last amended by
Commission Directive 2008/64/EC (OJ L 168, 28.6.2008, p. 31).
(2) OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 49. Decision as amended by Decision

2006/564/EC (OJ L 225, 17.8.2006, p. 28).

1. In Article 4(2), the following subparagraph is added:

‘When as a result of the survey referred to in Article 2 not
more than two specimens of the organism are found in the
focus zone for which evidence is provided that they have
been introduced in the year of their reporting, the measures
referred to in points (b), (d), (f) and (g) of the first subpara­
graph may be limited to the year of the occurrence of the
organism and the
thereafter, provided that no
specimens are found in that year. In this case, the moni­
toring indicated in Article 4(1)
is intensified in the focus
zone.’

year

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2. In Article 4(3), the following subparagraph is added:

‘When as a result of the survey referred to in Article 2 not more than two specimens of the organism are
found in the focus zone for which evidence is provided that they have been introduced in the year of
their reporting, the measures in the safety zone referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph may be
limited to the year of the occurrence of the organism and the year thereafter, provided that no specimens
are found in that year. In this case, the monitoring indicated in Article 4(1) is intensified in the safety
zone.’

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 25 July 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission