Article 13Authorisation of treatment facilities

1.

Member States in whose territory there is a demarcated area shall authorise treatment facilities adequately equipped to carry out one or more of the following tasks, as set out in Annex III:

(a)

treatment of susceptible wood and bark, as set out in point 2(a) of Section 1 of that Annex and point (c) of the first subparagraph of point 2 of Section 2 of that Annex;

(b)

issuing of plant passports referred to in Commission Directive 92/105/EEC6 for susceptible wood and bark treated by the treatment facility concerned in accordance with point (a) of this paragraph, as set out in point 2(b) of Section 1 of Annex III and point (b) of the second subparagraph of point 2 of Section 2 of that Annex;

(c)

treatment of wood packaging material, as set out in point 3(a) of Section 1 of that Annex and point 3 of Section 2 of that Annex; and

(d)

marking of wood packaging material treated by the treatment facility concerned in accordance with point (c), as set out in point 3(b) of Section 1 of Annex III and point 3 of Section 2 of that Annex, in accordance with Annex II to the FAO International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures No 15.

Those facilities are referred to hereinafter as ‘authorised treatment facilities’.

2.

Authorised treatment facilities shall ensure the traceability of the treated susceptible wood, bark and wood packaging material.