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Member States shall, by 30 April of each year, transmit to the Commission and to the other Member States a report on the measures taken during the preceding year, pursuant to Articles 2, 4, 5, 7 to 18 and 32, as applicable, and on the results of those measures.
The results of the surveys carried out pursuant to Articles 10 and 15 in demarcated areas shall be transmitted to the Commission using the templates referred to in Annex V.
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4.
The Member State concerned shall immediately notify the Commission and the other Member States of any official identification of the presence of the specified pest in the locations referred to in Article 15(2)(a).
Member States shall, as necessary in order to comply with this Regulation, repeal or amend the measures, which they have adopted to protect themselves against the introduction and spread of the specified pest. They shall immediately inform the Commission of the repeal or amendment of those measures.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
However, the second sentence of Article 2(4), the third sentence of Article 5(1)(c), the second sentence of Article 28(a) and the second sentence of Article 29(a) shall apply from 1 January 2023.
