SPS Notification: Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards the listing and the measures for regulated non-quarantine pests G/SPS/N/EU/851

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Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION

If applicable, name of local government involved:

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Agency responsible: European Commission, Health and Food Safety Directorate-General

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Plants (HS chapters: 06 (live plants))

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Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]    All trading partners

[ ]      Specific regions or countries:

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Title of the notified document: Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards the listing and the measures for regulated non-quarantine pests. Language(s): English. Number of pages: 5 pages (main text), 62 pages (annexes)

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/SPS/EEC/25_03446_00_e.pdf

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/SPS/EEC/25_03446_01_e.pdf

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Description of content: The draft Regulation amends Annexes IV and V to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072.

Major points to be highlighted:

• Change in scientific names of pests;
• Change on the format of Annex V into table for all Parts, in order to allow for third countries to indicate in the phytosanitary certificate the relevant measure applied, in line with Article 71(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2024/3115;
• Addition, in Annex V, of the option for the introduction of plants into the Union, not only movement within the Union, for Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni (Smith) Vauterin et al. in Part C, Dothistroma pini Hulbary, Dothistroma septosporum (Dorogin) Morelet, Lecanosticta acicola (von Thümen) Sydow and Phytophthora ramorum (EU isolates) Werres, De Cock & Man in 't Veld in Parts C and D, Pucciniahoriana P. Hennings, Aculops fuchsiae Keifer, Opogona sacchari Bojer, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier), Impatiens necrotic spot tospovirus and Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus virus in Part C, Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr. in Part D, Fusarium Link (anamorphic genus), other than Fusarium oxysporum sp. albedinis (Kill. & Maire) W.L. Gordon and Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg & O'Donnell, Helicobasidium brebissoni (Desm.) Donk, Stromatinia cepivora Berk. and Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus in Part H;
• Addition, in Annex V, of the option of area free for of Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kuehn) Filipjev in Parts A, C, E and H, Candidatus Phytoplasma solani Quaglino et al., Chrystantemum stunt viroid and Potato spindle tuber viroid in Part C, Verticillium dahliae Kleb in Parts H and J, and Verticillium nonalfalfae Inderbitzin, H.W. Platt, Bostock, R.M. Davis & K.V. Subbarao in Part J.

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Objective and rationale: [ ] food safety, [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[ ]        Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text):

[ ]        World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number):

[X]      International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number):

• ISPM4 No. 4: Requirements for the establishment of pest free areas
• ISPM No. 8: Determination of pests status in an area
• ISPM No. 10: Requirements for the establishment of pest free places of production and pest free production sites
• ISPM No. 16: Regulated non-quarantine pests: concept and application
• ISPM No. 21: Pest risk analysis for regulated non quarantine pests
• ISPM No. 31: Methodologies for sampling of consignments

[ ]        None

Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?

[X] Yes   [ ] No

If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard:

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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against pests of plants available in all the official languages of the European Union

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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): July-September 2025

Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): September-October 2025

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Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or(dd/mm/yy): 6 July 2026

[ ]      Trade facilitating measure

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Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 18 July 2025

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

European Commission

DG Health and Food Safety, Unit A4-Multilateral International Relations

Rue Froissart 101

B-1049 Brussels

Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263

E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu

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Text(s) available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

European Commission

DG Health and Food Safety, Unit A4-Multilateral International Relations

Rue Froissart 101

B-1049 Brussels

Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263

E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu