Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1101 of 22 May 2026 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389 as regards the minimum frequency rates for identity checks and physical checks on consignments of plants, plant products and other objects entering the Union

Amendment of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389

Article 1

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2389 is amended as follows: (1) Article 4(4) is replaced by the following: ‘4.   The frequency rates referred to in paragraph 3 shall not apply to: (a) plants intended for planting; (b) any plant, plant product or other object or categories thereof which is subject to a measure provided for in acts adopted in accordance with Article 28(1), Article 30(1) and Article 49(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031; and (c) plants, plant products or other objects or categories thereof for which equivalent requirements concerning third countries have been laid down in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 44(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 until 31 December of the third consecutive year from the date of application of that implementing act.’ ; (2) Annex I is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation; (3) point 1 of Annex II is replaced by the following: ‘1. A new frequency rate may be established where: (a) the average number of consignments of plants, plant products or other objects, or categories thereof, entering the Union over the preceding three years, is at least 200 per year; (b) the number of consignments of plants, plant products and other objects, or categories thereof, or, after the period provided for in Article 4(4), point (c), the number of such consignments subject to an implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 44(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, entering the Union, for which documentary checks, identity checks and physical checks have been carried out during the previous three years, is at least 600; (c) the number of consignments of the plants, plant products and other objects, or categories thereof, or the number of such consignments subject to an implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 44(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, which were found infested by Union quarantine pests each year is less than 1 % of the total number of consignments of those plants, plant products and other objects, or categories thereof, imported into the Union.’.

Entry into force

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 .

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 Aster Zimbabwe 75 Dianthus Colombia 3 Dianthus Ecuador 10 Dianthus Kenya 5 Dianthus Türkiye 10 Gypsophila Ecuador 5 Gypsophila Kenya 3 Phoenix Costa Rica 50 Rosa Colombia 5 Rosa Ecuador 1 Rosa Ethiopia 25 Rosa Kenya 25 Rosa Zambia 75 Fruits Actinidia All third countries 5 Carica papaya All third countries 5 Fragaria All third countries other than Egypt 5 Persea americana All third countries other than Cameroon 3 Rubus All third countries 3 Vitis All third countries 1 Malus European third countries  ( 1 ) 5 Prunus European third countries  ( 1 ) 5 Pyrus European third countries  ( 1 ) 5 Vaccinium European third countries  ( 1 ) 25 Citrus Egypt 50 Citrus other than Citrus sinensis Israel 5 Citrus Mexico 50 Citrus Morocco 5 Citrus Peru 10 Citrus Türkiye 3 Malus Argentina 75 Malus Chile 5 Malus New Zealand 15 Malus South Africa 10 Mangifera Brazil 50 Passiflora Colombia 5 Passiflora Réunion 10 Passiflora South Africa 50 Passiflora Viet Nam 10 Prunus Argentina 50 Prunus Chile 15 Prunus South Africa 10 Psidium Brazil 75 Pyrus Argentina 15 Pyrus Chile 15 Pyrus China 25 Pyrus South Africa 10 Vaccinium Argentina 35 Vaccinium Chile 10 Vaccinium Peru 5 Vegetables Solanum lycopersicum Canary Islands 15 Solanum lycopersicum Morocco 1 Root and tubercle vegetables, other than tubers of Solanum tuberosum, Curcuma longa and Zingiber officinale All third countries other than Cameroon 5 Roots and tubercles of Curcuma longa All third countries other than Thailand, Peru and Cameroon 15 Roots and tubercles of Zingiber officinale All third countries other than Peru and Cameroon 5 Used machinery Machinery and vehicles which have been operated for agricultural or forestry purposes All third countries 5 ( 1 )   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 (*). (*) 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 Windsor Framework (see Joint Declaration No 1/2023 of the Union and the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee established by 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 of 24 March 2023, OJ L 102, 17.4.2023, p. 87 ) in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Framework, for the purposes of this Annex, references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland. ’.