New EU plant health rules applicable from 14/12/2019

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Legislation: Phytosanitary Requirements/Restrictions/Prohibitions

Publication Date

16-12-2019

Last Updated

08-04-2022

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In October 2016, the European Parliament and the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against plant pests (“Plant Health Law”).This Regulation takes into account the IPPC, the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the guidelines set out under them. The Regulation is applicable from 14 December 2019.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 establishes uniform conditions to implement Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. The phytosanitary requirements for import into the EU (including Belgium) are specified in the Annexes of this Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072, as amended:

Annex II, III and IV list the quarantine pests, protected zone quarantine pests and regulated non-quarantine pests
Annex VI specifies the import prohibitions
Annex VII lists specific phytosanitary import requirements which plants and plant products imported into the EU shall comply with
Annex IX specifies import prohibitions for specific protected zones
Annex X lists the special requirements for import in specific protected zones
Annex XI specifies the list of plants, plant products and other objects subject to phytosanitary certificates (and those for which such certificates are not required for their introduction into the Union territory)
Annex XII lists the plants, plant products and other objects for which a phytosanitary certificate is required for their introduction into a protected zone from certain third countries of origin or dispatch

In addition, to enhance prevention, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 establishes the list of high risk plants, the introduction of which into the EU territory will be provisionally prohibited from 14 December 2019 until a full risk assessment has been carried out. The rules concerning the procedure to be followed in order to carry out the risk assessment of high risk plants are detailed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2018. Dossiers have been received from non-EU countries and are assesed by EFSA. Based on those risk assessments, the list of high risk plants, plant products and other objects of Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 is amended regularly. For certain of the high risk plants that are removed from the list, specific phytosanitary measures are introduced via Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2020/1213.

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