Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1316 of 2 July 2025 on temporary measures to prevent the introduction into, establishment and spread within the Union territory of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones, and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072

Article 1Subject matter

This Regulation sets out measures to prevent the introduction into the Union territory, and the establishment and the spread within that territory, of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones.

Article 2Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
(1)
‘specified pest’ means Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones;
(2)
‘specified plants’ means plants for planting of Glycine max L. Merr., Phaseolus coccineus L., Phaseolus lunatus L., Phaseolus vulgaris L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. and Vicia faba L.

Article 3Surveys of the Union territory

1.   The competent authorities shall annually conduct risk-based surveys for the presence of the specified pest on specified plants, at appropriate times of the year to detect the specified pest.
Those surveys shall be carried out by inspection of the specified plants and, in the case of any suspicion for the presence of the specified pest, by sampling and testing for that presence using appropriate methods with molecular identification.
2.   By 30 April of each year, Member States shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States the results of the surveys carried out pursuant to paragraph 1 during the preceding year.

Article 4Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072

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

Article 5Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Article 3 shall apply until 30 April 2029.
Article 4 shall apply from 23 April 2026.

ANNEXAmendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072

ANNEX
Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072
Annexes VII and XI are amended as follows:
(1)
in Annex VII, the following point is inserted between points 74 and 75:
‘74.1
Plants for planting of Glycine max L. Merr., Phaseolus coccineus L., Phaseolus lunatus L., Phaseolus vulgaris L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. and Vicia faba L.
ex 0602 90 30
ex 0602 90 50
ex 0602 90 99
ex 0713 31 00
ex 0713 32 00
0713 33 10
ex 0713 35 00
ex 0713 39 00
ex 0713 50 00
ex 0713 90 00
1201 10 00
Third countries
Official statement that:
(a)
the plants for planting originate in a country recognised as being free from Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones in accordance with the relevant International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures,
or
(b)
the plants for planting originate in an area established by the national plant protection organisation in the country of origin as being free from Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones, in accordance with the International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures ISPM 4  ( *1 ) ; the pest free area is mentioned on the phytosanitary certificate,
or
(c)
the plants for planting originate from a site of production complying with the following conditions:
(i)
it is registered and supervised by the national plant protection organisation in the country of origin;
(ii)
official inspection of the site of production and its immediate vicinity has been carried out prior to harvest, and no presence of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones has been detected;
(iii)
prior to export, a representative sample of the plants for planting has been tested using appropriate methods with molecular identification and found free from Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfacien s (Hedges) Collins and Jones,
or
(d)
in case of plants for planting in the form of seeds, prior to their export, from each lot a sample has been tested using appropriate methods with molecular identification and found free from Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfacien s (Hedges) Collins and Jones.
In case of point (d), the size of the sample shall be such as to enable at least the detection of 0,5 % level of infection with a level of confidence of 99 %. However, in the case of seed lots smaller than 8 000 seeds, a representative sample of 10 % of the lot has been tested and found free from Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones in this test.
(2)
Annex XI is amended as follows:
(i)
in Part A, under point ‘8. Seeds of:’, the following entry is added:
‘ Phaseolus lunatus L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, and Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.
Beans of the species Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper or Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. for sowing:
ex 0713 31 00
ex 0713 35 00
Small red (Adzuki) beans ( Vigna angularis ) for sowing:
ex 0713 32 00
Beans ( Phaseolus lunatus, Phaseolus coccineus ) for sowing:
– – Other
ex 0713 39 00
Third countries other than Switzerland’
(ii)
in Part B, in the second column, the entry ‘Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, not skinned or split, for sowing…’ is replaced by the following:
‘Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, not skinned or split, for sowing:
ex 0713 20 00
ex 0713 34 00
ex 0713 39 00
ex 0713 40 00
ex 0713 60 00
ex 0713 90 00 (other than Phaseolus lunatus and Phaseolus coccineus ).’
( *1 )   ISPM 4 “Requirements for the establishment of pest free areas.”
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