Official monitoring surveys
1. Annual risk-based official monitoring surveys shall be carried out on production sites used for the production of potatoes, other than those intended for the production of potato tubers intended for planting, in order to determine the distribution of the specified pests on those sites.
2. Member States shall report to the Commission and the other Member States, by 30 April of each year, the results of the monitoring surveys referred to in paragraph 1 which were carried out in the preceding year in accordance with the template set out in Annex IV.
Sampling and testing for official monitoring surveys
1. The official monitoring surveys shall be carried out on at least 0,5 % of the acreage used in the relevant year for the production of potatoes, other than potatoes intended for the production of potato tubers for planting.
2. Those official monitoring surveys shall involve sampling and testing for the presence of specified pests, in accordance with point 2 of Annex III.
3. Where Member States use the sample size referred to in point 6 of Annex III, they shall notify the details of the areas, where that sample size has been used, to the Commission and the other Member States.
