Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2069 of 25 November 2021 amending Annex VI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards the introduction into the Union of ware potatoes from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia and repealing Implementing Decisions 2012/219/EU and (EU) 2015/1199

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2069
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Article 1

Annex VI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Implementing Decisions 2012/219/EU and (EU) 2015/1199 are repealed.

Article 3

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

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In entry 17, fourth column, of Annex VI to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072, the text is replaced by the following:

‘Third countries or regions other than:

(a)

Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Switzerland, Tunisia and Turkey;

or

(b)

those which fulfil the following:

(i)

they are one of following:

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Canary Islands, Faeroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia (only the following parts: Central Federal District (Tsentralny federalny okrug), Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug), Southern Federal District (Yuzhny federalny okrug), North Caucasian Federal District (Severo-Kavkazsky federalny okrug) and Volga Federal District (Privolzhsky federalny okrug)), San Marino and Ukraine;

and

(ii)

they fulfil one of the following:

—

they are recognised as being free from Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Nouioui et al. , in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 107 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, or

—

their legislation is recognised as equivalent to the Union rules concerning protection against Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Nouioui et al. in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 107 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031;

or

(c)

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and the United Kingdom  ( *1 ) , provided the following condition is fulfilled: the submission by those third countries to the Commission, by 30 April of each year, of survey results of the previous year confirming that Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Nouioui et al. is not present on their territories.

( *1 )   In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex, references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland.’.’