Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/355 of 21 February 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389 concerning the establishment of frequency rates for identity checks and physical checks on consignments of plants, plant products and other objects entering the Union

Amendment to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389

Article 1

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389 is amended as follows: (a) Article 4(4) is replaced by the following: ‘4.   The frequency rates according to paragraph 3 shall not apply to: (a) plants intended for planting; (b) any plant, plant product or other object which is subject to a measure concerning its introduction into the Union, provided for in acts adopted in accordance with Articles 28(1), 30(1) and 49(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031.’ (b) Annex I is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Entry into force and application

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 March 2025.

ANNEXSupplementary provisions

ANNEX ‘ANNEX I Frequency rates of identity checks and physical checks of the consignments of certain plants, plant products and other objects, or categories thereof, as referred to in Article 4(3) Plant, plant product or other object, or a category thereof Country of origin Minimum frequency rate of identity and physical checks (%) Cut flowers Dianthus Colombia 3 Dianthus Ecuador 10 Dianthus Kenya 5 Dianthus Türkiye 25 Gypsophila Ecuador 3 Gypsophila Kenya 5 Phoenix Costa Rica 50 Rosa Colombia 3 Rosa Ecuador 1 Rosa Ethiopia 25 Rosa Kenya 25 Fruits Actinidia All third countries 10 Carica papaya All third countries 10 Fragaria All third countries  ( 1 ) 5 Persea americana All third countries  ( 2 ) 1 Rubus All third countries 5 Vitis All third countries 1 Malus European third countries  ( 3 ) 10 Prunus European third countries  ( 3 )  ( 4 ) 3 Pyrus European third countries  ( 3 ) 10 Vaccinium European third countries  ( 3 ) 50 Citrus Egypt 50 Citrus Israel 25 Citrus Mexico 25 Citrus Morocco 5 Citrus Peru 10 Citrus Türkiye 5 Citrus USA 75 Malus Argentina 75 Malus Chile 5 Malus New Zealand 15 Malus South Africa 15 Mangifera Brazil 75 Passiflora Colombia 5 Passiflora Réunion 10 Passiflora South Africa 75 Passiflora Viet Nam 15 Prunus Chile 25 Prunus South Africa 10 Prunus Türkiye 25 Pyrus Argentina 25 Pyrus Chile 15 Pyrus China 50 Pyrus South Africa 10 Vaccinium Argentina 50 Vaccinium Chile 15 Vaccinium Peru 5 Vegetables Solanum lycopersicum Canary Islands 15 Solanum lycopersicum Morocco 1 Root and tubercle vegetables, other than tubers of Solanum tuberosum L.  ( 5 )  ( 6 ) All third countries  ( 2 ) 5 Roots and tubercles of Curcuma longa Thailand 35 Used machinery Machinery and vehicles which have been operated for agricultural or forestry purposes All third countries 5 ’ ( 1 )   Other than Egypt. ( 2 )   Other than Cameroon. ( 3 )   Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canary Islands, Faeroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, 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, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine and United Kingdom. ( 4 )   Other than Türkiye. ( 5 )   Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019, Annex VII, point 12 ( OJ L 319, 10.12.2019, p. 103 ; ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2072/oj ). ( 6 )   Excluding Curcuma longa and Zingiber officinale from Peru, and Curcuma longa from Thailand.