Article 1
Decision 2002/499/EC is amended as follows: 1. Article 2 is replaced by the following text: ‘Article 2 Member States shall provide the Commission and the other Member States, before 1 August of each year from 2005 to 2008, with the information on quantities imported during the year prior to that date pursuant to this Decision and with a detailed technical report of the examination and/or tests carried out on these plants during the quarantine period referred to in point 10 of the Annex. Any Member State, other than that of importation, in which the plants are introduced, shall also provide the Commission and the other Member States, before 1 August of each year from 2005 to 2008, with a detailed technical report of the examination and/or tests carried out on these plants introduced during the year prior to that date during the quarantine period referred to in point 10 of the Annex.’; 2. Article 4 is replaced by the following: ‘Article 4 Member States may apply the derogations mentioned in Article 1 to plants imported into the Community in the following periods: Plants Period Chamaecyparis: 1.6.2004 to 31.12.2007 Juniperus: 1.11.2004 to 31.3.2005, 1.11.2005 to 31.3.2006 and 1.11.2006 to 31.3.2007 Pinus: 1.6.2004 to 31.12.2007’ 3. in the second sentence of point 3 of the Annex, ‘2004’ is replaced by ‘each year’.