Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/696 of 4 May 2016 amending Decision 2006/473/EC recognising certain third countries and certain areas of third countries as being free from Xanthomonas campestris (all strains pathogenic to Citrus) and Guignardia citricarpa Kiely (all strains pathogenic to Citrus) (notified under document C(2016) 2614)

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Decision 2006/473/EC is amended as follows:

(1)

point (c) of Article 1(2) is replaced by the following:

‘(c)United States: Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Texas and the United States Virgin Islands;’;

(2)

Article 3 is amended as follows:

(a)

point (a) of paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘(a)all citrus-growing third countries in Europe, North, Central and South America and the Caribbean except for Argentina, Brazil, the United States and Uruguay;’;

(b)

point (e) of paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

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‘(c)United States: Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Texas and the United States Virgin Islands;’;

‘(a)all citrus-growing third countries in Europe, North, Central and South America and the Caribbean except for Argentina, Brazil, the United States and Uruguay;’;

‘(e)the United States: all areas except counties of Collier, Hendry, Lee and Polk located in the State of Florida.’