1.By 31 December 2013 each Member State shall establish a plan setting out the actions to be taken in its territory in accordance with Articles 5 to 16, in case of a confirmed presence or a suspicion of the presence of PWN, hereinafter ‘the contingency plan’.
2.The contingency plan shall set out the following:
(a)the roles and responsibilities of the bodies involved and the single authority in those actions;
(b)rules on the communication of those actions between the bodies involved, the Single Authority, the concerned private sector and the public;
(c)rules on laboratory testing; and
(d)rules on training of personnel of the bodies involved in those actions.
3.Member States shall provide for the evaluation and review of their contingency plans.
4.Member States shall communicate their contingency plans to the Commission at its request.