Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/885Show full title

Article 8 Issuance of plant passport and conditions for movement

Specified plants that have spent any part of their lives in the Union and plants introduced into the Union according to Article 3 may be moved within the Union only if they are accompanied by a plant passport prepared, issued and used in accordance with Articles 78 to 95 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, and if they meet one of the following conditions:

(a)

The specified plants have been grown throughout their life in a Member State where the specified pest is not known to occur.

(b)

The specified plants have been grown throughout their life in a protected zone listed in Annex III of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072.

(c)

The specified plants have been grown throughout their life in a pest-free area, established as regards the specified pest by the competent authority of a Member State of origin in accordance with the FAO’s ISPM No 4.

(d)

The specified plants have been produced in a pest-free place or a pest-free site of production, established as regards the specified pest by the responsible official body of the Member State of origin in accordance with the FAO’s ISPM No 10. The specified plants have been grown in a structure with a degree of isolation and protection from the outside environment that effectively excludes the specified pest. At that place or site, the specified plants have been officially inspected twice at the most appropriate times for detecting symptoms of infection during the last complete cycle of vegetation prior to the movement and found free from the specified pest.

That place or site of production is surrounded by a zone with a radius of at least 100 metres, where official inspections were carried out twice at the most appropriate times for detecting symptoms of infection during the last complete cycle of vegetation prior to the movement and any plants showing symptoms of infection which were found during those inspections were immediately destroyed.

(e)

The specified plants have been produced in a pest-free place of production, established as regards the specified pest by the competent authority of the Member State of origin in accordance with the FAO’s ISPM No 10.

At that place the specified plants have been officially inspected, sampled and tested twice at the most appropriate times for detecting symptoms of infection during the last complete cycle of vegetation prior to the movement and found free from the specified pest.

That place of production is surrounded by a zone with a radius of 500 metres (‘the surrounding zone’), where one of the following conditions have been fulfilled:

(i)

official inspections, sampling and testing have been carried out throughout the surrounding zone twice at the most appropriate times for detecting symptoms of infection during the last complete cycle of vegetation prior to the movement. The specified pest has not been found during the official inspection, sampling and testing;

(ii)

all specified plants within the surrounding zone have been immediately destroyed;

(iii)

each specified plant within the surrounding zone has been regularly tested at the most appropriate times for detecting symptoms of infection and found free from the specified pest.

The surrounding zone is itself encircled by a further zone, with a width of 4 000 metres, where one of the following conditions has been fulfilled:

(i)

following official inspections, sampling and testing that have been carried out throughout that further zone twice, at the most appropriate times for detecting symptoms of infection during the last complete cycle of vegetation prior to the movement, eradication measures were taken in all cases when the specified pest has been identified on the specified plants. These measures shall consist of the immediate destruction of the infected specified plants;

(ii)

all specified plants within that further zone have been destroyed;

(iii)

all specified plants within that further zone have been tested according to a sampling scheme able to confirm with 99 % reliability that the level of presence of the specified pest in the specified plants is below 0,1 %.