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Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/484 of 21 March 2018 amending Directive 93/49/EEC as regards requirements to be fulfilled by the propagating material of certain genera or species of Palmae in respect of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier)

Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/484 of 21 March 2018 amending Directive 93/49/EEC as regards requirements to be fulfilled by the propagating material of certain genera or species of Palmae in respect of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier)

Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/484 · Directive · 5 articles

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Amendment of Commission Directive 93/49/EEC

Article 1

Commission Directive 93/49/EEC is amended as follows: (1) The following Article 3a is added: ‘Article 3a Propagating material of Palmae belonging to the genera and species referred to in the Annex and having a diameter of the stem at the base of over 5 cm shall comply with one of the following requirements: (a) it shall have been grown for their entire life in an area which has been established as free from Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) by the responsible official body in accordance with relevant International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures; (b) it shall have been grown in the two years prior to their marketing in a site within the Union with complete physical protection against the introduction of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier), or in a site within the Union where the appropriate preventive treatments have been applied with respect to that harmful organism. It shall be subject to visual inspections carried out at least once every four months, confirming freedom of that material from Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier). This Article shall apply without prejudice to the rules on protected zones adopted pursuant to point (h) of Article 2(1) and Article 5(3) of Directive 2000/29/EC’ (2) The Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

Transposition

Article 2

1.   Member States shall adopt and publish, by 30 September 2018 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive. They shall apply those provisions from 1 October 2018. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made. 2.   Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Entry into force

Article 3

This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Addressees

Article 4

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Supplementary provisions

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX In the Annex, the following entry is inserted after the entry ‘ Narcissus L.’ in the table: Genus or species Specific harmful organisms and diseases ‘— Palmae , as regards the following genera and species — Areca catechu L. — Syagrus romanzoffiana (Cham.) Glassman — Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. — Bismarckia Hildebr. & H.Wendl. — Borassus flabellifer L. — Brahea armata S. Watson — Brahea edulis H.Wendl. — Butia capitata (Mart.) Becc. — Calamus merrillii Becc. — Caryota maxima Blume — Caryota cumingii Lodd. ex Mart. — Chamaerops humilis L. — Cocos nucifera L. — Corypha utan Lam. — Copernicia Mart. — Elaeis guineensis Jacq. — Howea forsteriana Becc. — Jubaea chilensis (Molina) Baill. — Livistona australis C. Martius — Livistona decora (W. Bull) Dowe — Livistona rotundifolia (Lam.) Mart. — Metroxylon sagu Rottb. — Roystonea regia (Kunth) O.F. Cook — Phoenix canariensis Chabaud — Phoenix dactylifera L. — Phoenix reclinata Jacq. — Phoenix roebelenii O'Brien — Phoenix sylvestris (L.) Roxb. — Phoenix theophrasti Greuter — Pritchardia Seem. & H.Wendl. — Ravenea rivularis Jum. & H.Perrier — Sabal palmetto (Walter) Lodd. ex Schult. & Schult.f. — Trachycarpus fortunei (Hook.) H. Wendl. — Washingtonia H. Wendl. Insects, mites and nematodes at all stages of their development — Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier)’

Implementing measures in the Member States

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