Prováděcí nařízení Komise (EU) 2025/1316 ze dne 2. července 2025 o dočasných opatřeních proti zavlékání organismu Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins a Jones do Unie a jeho usídlení a šíření na území Unie a o změně prováděcího nařízení (EU) 2019/2072

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/ECOJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/2031/oj. , and in particular Article 28(1), point (g), Article 41(3), first subparagraph, and Article 72(1), second subparagraph, point (e), thereof,

This Regulation sets out measures to prevent the introduction into the Union territory, and the establishment and the spread within that territory, of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones.

OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/2031/oj.

(1) Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones (the specified pest) is listed in Part A of Annex II to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 (OJ L 319, 10.12.2019, p. 1 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2072/oj). as a pest not known to occur in the Union territory.

(2) In 2024, the specified pest was found present on imported seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris L.

(3) Additionally, in the recent years, outbreaks of the specified pest have been reported in the Union territory, in fields where Phaseolus vulgaris L. and Vicia faba L. were grown.

(4) Plants for planting of Glycine max L. Merr., Phaseolus coccineus L., Phaseolus lunatus L., Phaseolus vulgaris L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. and Vicia faba L. (specified plants) should be subject to certain measures. This is because, in accordance with an Opinion of the European Food Safety Authority, those plants are the main hosts of the specified pestScientific Opinion on the pest categorisation of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens . EFSA Journal 2018; 16(5):5299, 22 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5299. , and they are also the plants on which the specified pest was either found during import controls or at outbreaks in the Union territory.

(5) Member States should annually perform surveys for the presence of the specified pest, employing a risk-based approach, to ensure the early detection of the specified pest and clarify the status of its presence in the Union territory. Those surveys should consist of visual examinations and, where necessary, testing of the specified plants for the presence of the specified pest.

(6) Moreover, and in order to protect the Union territory from the phytosanitary risk of the specified pest, special requirements should be set out in Annex VII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 for the introduction into the Union of the specified plants from all third countries.

(7) Those requirements should consist of different options, namely: requirement for the plants to originate from countries or areas which are free from the specified pest; requirement for the plants to originate from production sites which are subject to specific conditions; and requirement for the plants to be subjected to sampling and testing pursuant to certain rules. Each of those options is sufficient to reduce the respective phytosanitary risk to an acceptable level.

(8) Given the increasing demand in the Union for seeds of host plants of the specified pest, it is necessary to adopt requirements for introduction of those seeds into the Union territory.

(9) Moreover, seeds of Phaseolus lunatus L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek and Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp., should be listed in Part A of Annex XI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072.

(10) Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(11) Given the still uncertain status of the presence of that pest in the Union territory, the requirement to perform annual surveys for the presence of the specified pest should apply during a limited period of time, during which the Commission will reassess the need for continuing the annual surveys based on the knowledge about the presence of the specified pest obtained by the competent authorities during the annual surveys.

(12) The requirements concerning the introduction into the Union territory of the specified plants should apply from 23 April 2026 . This is necessary in order to allow the competent authorities of the third countries sufficient time to adapt to those requirements.

(13) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 (OJ L 319, 10.12.2019, p. 1 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2072/oj).

Article 1 Article 1 Subject matter

Article 2 Article 2 Definitions

Article 3 Article 3 Surveys of the Union territory 1.The competent authorities shall annually conduct risk-based surveys for the presence of the specified pest on specified plants, at appropriate times of the year to detect the specified pest. Those surveys shall be carried out by inspection of the specified plants and, in the case of any suspicion for the presence of the specified pest, by sampling and testing for that presence using appropriate methods with molecular identification. 2.By 30 April of each year, Member States shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States the results of the surveys carried out pursuant to paragraph 1 during the preceding year.

Article 4 Article 4 Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072

Article 5 Article 5 Entry into force and application

(1) specified pest means Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones;

(2) specified plants means plants for planting of Glycine max L. Merr., Phaseolus coccineus L., Phaseolus lunatus L., Phaseolus vulgaris L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. and Vicia faba L.

The competent authorities shall annually conduct risk-based surveys for the presence of the specified pest on specified plants, at appropriate times of the year to detect the specified pest.

Those surveys shall be carried out by inspection of the specified plants and, in the case of any suspicion for the presence of the specified pest, by sampling and testing for that presence using appropriate methods with molecular identification.

By 30 April of each year, Member States shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States the results of the surveys carried out pursuant to paragraph 1 during the preceding year.

Scientific Opinion on the pest categorisation of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens . EFSA Journal 2018; 16(5):5299, 22 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5299.

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Article 3 shall apply until 30 April 2029 .

Article 4 shall apply from 23 April 2026 .

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