Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/728

of 20 April 2017

amending Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU on the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material actually in use in the transport of specified commodities originating in China

(notified under document C(2017) 2429)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community1, and in particular the fourth sentence of Article 16(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)
Commission Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU2 provides for the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material actually in use in the transport of certain commodities originating in China.
(2)

The application of Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU has shown that wood packaging material used in the transport of certain commodities originating in China continues to present a phytosanitary risk to the Union. Therefore, the supervision, plant health checks and measures provided for by the Implementing Decision should continue to apply until 31 July 2018 and the date by which Member States have to report on phytosanitary import checks should be set accordingly.

(3)
The Combined Nomenclature Codes of certain commodities have been updated by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/18213. The reporting templates set out in Annexes I and II to Decision 2013/92/EU should thus be aligned to the updated nomenclature.
(4)

Decision 2013/92/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: