1.The importing Member States shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States, each year before 31 December, a report with information on the amounts of the specified fruits introduced into the Union under this Decision during the previous import season.
2.Member States in whose territory the specified fruit are processed into juice shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States, each year before 31 December, a report with all the following elements:
(a)the amounts of the specified fruits processed in their territory under this Decision during the previous import season;
(b)the volumes of waste and by-products destroyed and detailed information on the method of their use or destruction as refer to in Article 15(3).
3.The report referred to in the paragraph 1 shall also include the results of the plant health checks of the specified fruits carried out in accordance with Article 13(1) of Directive 2000/29/EC and this Decision.
Member States shall immediately notify the Commission, the other Member States and the third country concerned of a confirmed finding of Phyllosticta citricarpa.
Decision 2004/416/EC and Implementing Decision 2014/422/EU are repealed.
This Decision shall apply from 1 June 2016.
This Decision shall expire on 31 March 2022 .]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/449 of 18 March 2019 amending Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715 setting out measures in respect of certain fruits originating in certain third countries to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of the harmful organism Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Van der Aa (notified under document C(2019) 2024).
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.