Official detection surveys
Article 3
1. Competent authorities shall carry out an official detection survey for the presence of the specified pest on the production sites, in which the plants listed in Annex I, intended for replanting, or potatoes intended for the production of potato tubers for planting, are to be planted or stored under conditions, where the roots or other parts of the plant are in direct contact with the soil of the production site. 2. The official detection surveys shall be carried out in the period between the harvesting of the latest crop and the planting of the plants or potato tubers for planting referred to in paragraph 1. By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the official detection survey may be carried out: (a) earlier than that period, on the condition that the competent authority keeps available a record about the documentary evidence of the results of that official detection survey, confirming that the specified pests have not been found, and that potatoes and other host plants listed in point 1 of Annex I were not present at the time of the detection survey and have not been grown since the conduct of that survey; or (b) during a period when crops which are not harvested, such as green manure or catch crops, are grown on the production site concerned. 3. An official detection survey shall not be required for: (a) the planting of plants listed in Annex I, intended for replanting within the same place of production situated within an area defined by the competent authorities; (b) the planting of potatoes, intended for the production of potato tubers for planting to be used within the same place of production situated within an area defined by the competent authorities; (c) the planting of plants listed in points 2 and 3 of Annex I, intended for replanting where the harvested plants are to be subject to the officially approved measures referred to in point 1 of Annex II. 4. Member States shall officially record the results of the official detection surveys and make them accessible to the Commission, on request, in accordance with the template set out in Annex IV.