Commission Implementing Decision
of 26 September 2012
on emergency measures to prevent the spread within the Union of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner et Buhrer) Nickle et al. (the pine wood nematode)
(notified under document C(2012) 6543)
(2012/535/EU) (revoked)

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Decision revoked (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), reg. 2(2)(b), Sch. 3 para. 15 (with regs. 53, 55)

Article 1 Definitions
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Article 2 Surveys in areas in which PWN is not known to occur
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Article 3 Laboratory testing
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Article 4 Contingency plans
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Article 5 Demarcated areas
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Article 6 Eradication
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Article 7 Containment
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Article 8 Information of the operators and the public
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Article 9 Communication on national measures
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Article 10 Movement of susceptible plants and susceptible wood and bark within the Union
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Article 11 Checks concerning movements from demarcated areas to areas other than demarcated areas and from infested zones to buffer zones
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Article 12 Measures in case of non-compliance with Article 10
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Article 13 Authorisation of treatment facilities
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Article 14 Marking authorisation
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Article 15 Supervision of authorised treatment facilities and authorised wood packaging material producers
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Article 16 Withdrawal of authorisations of authorised treatment facilities and authorised wood packaging material producers
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Article 17 List of authorised treatment facilities and authorised wood packaging material producers
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Article 18 Repeal
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Article 19 Review
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Article 20 Date of application
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Article 21 Addressees
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ANNEX I Eradication measures provided for in Article 6

1. Member States shall in accordance with Article 6 take measures in the demarcated areas to eradicate PWN, as set out in points 2 to 10.
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2. When establishing a demarcated area, the Member State concerned shall immediately, in that area, create a zone with a minimum radius of 500 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present, hereinafter ‘the clear-cut zone’. The actual radius of that zone shall be determined, for each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present, based on the risk of transmission of PWN by the vector further than 500 m away from that susceptible plant.
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3. Where a Member State concludes that creation of a 500 m-radius clear-cut zone, as referred to in point 2, has unacceptable social or environmental impacts, the minimum radius of the clear-cut zone may be reduced to 100 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present.
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4. Where point 3 applies, each susceptible plant exempted from felling and located between 100 and 500 m from the susceptible plants in which PWN has been found to be present, shall be inspected before, during and after the flight season of the vectors, for signs or symptoms of the presence of PWN.
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5. Where a Member State has evidence that the vector has not been present in the area concerned for the last 3 years, based on surveys carried out for the presence of the vector in accordance with FAO International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures No 4 and taking into account the dispersal capacity of the vectors, the minimum radius of the clear-cut zone shall be 100 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present.
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7. Member States shall, throughout the demarcated area, identify and fell all susceptible plants in which PWN has been found to be present, and those which are dead, in poor health or affected by fire or storm. They shall remove and dispose of plants felled and logging remains, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading of PWN and its vector until the end of felling. They shall respect the following conditions:
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8. As regards susceptible wood identified in the demarcated area during the flight season of the vector, as referred to in point 7(b), Member States shall strip logs of felled susceptible plants of their bark, or treat those logs with an insecticide known to be effective against the vector or cover those logs with an insect net drenched with such an insecticide immediately after felling. After stripping, treating or covering, the susceptible wood shall, under official supervision, immediately be moved to a storage place or to an authorised treatment facility. Wood, which was not stripped of its bark, shall, immediately, at its storage place or at the authorised treatment facility, once more, be treated with an insecticide known to be effective against the vector or covered with an insect net drenched in such an insecticide.
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8a. By way of derogation from point 7(b), where a Member State concludes that felling and removal of susceptible plants affected by fire or storm, during the flight season of the vector, is inappropriate, the Member State concerned may decide to proceed with the felling and removal of those plants before the start of the next flight season.
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ANNEX II Containment measures provided for in Article 7

1. Member States shall in accordance with Article 7 take measures in the demarcated areas, which shall have a buffer zone having a width of at least 20 km, to contain PWN, as set out in points 2 and 3.
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3. Member States shall take the following measures in the buffer zones:
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ANNEX III Conditions for movement of susceptible plants and susceptible wood and bark within the Union, as provided for in Article 10

SECTION 1 Conditions for movement of susceptible plants and susceptible wood and bark from demarcated areas into areas other than demarcated areas and from infested zones into buffer zones
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1. Susceptible plants may be moved provided that those plants fulfil the following conditions:
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2. Susceptible wood and bark, with exception of wood packaging material, may be moved provided that that wood or bark fulfils the following conditions:
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3. Susceptible wood in the form of wood packaging material may be moved provided that that wood packaging material fulfils the following conditions:
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4. By way of derogation from points 2 and 3, susceptible wood may be moved out of the demarcated area, or out of the infested zone into the buffer zone, to the authorised treatment facility located at the shortest distance from that demarcated area or infested zone for immediate treatment where no appropriate treatment facility is located inside that area or zone.
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SECTION 2 Conditions for movement of susceptible plants and susceptible wood and bark within infested zones subject to eradication measures
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2. Susceptible wood and bark may be moved in order for that wood or bark to be subjected to one of the following treatments:
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