ANNEX ISupplementary provisions
ANNEX I Eradication measures provided for in Article 6 1. Member States shall in accordance with Article 6 take measures in the demarcated areas to eradicate PWN, as set out in points 2 to 10. Member States shall include a detailed description of those measures in the communication provided for in Article 9(1). 2. When establishing a demarcated area, the Member State concerned shall immediately, in that area, create a zone with a minimum radius of 500 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present, hereinafter ‘the clear-cut zone’. The actual radius of that zone shall be determined, for each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present, based on the risk of transmission of PWN by the vector further than 500 m away from that susceptible plant. In the clear-cut zone all susceptible plants shall be felled, removed and disposed of. The felling and destruction of those plants shall be carried out from the outside of the zone towards the centre. All necessary precautions shall be taken to avoid spreading PWN and its vector during felling. All dead plants, all plants in poor health and a number of healthy-looking plants selected based on the risk of spreading the PWN in the particular case shall be sampled after felling. The sampling shall be carried out in several parts of each plant including the crown. All samples shall be tested for the presence of PWN. 3. Where a Member State concludes that creation of a 500 m-radius clear-cut zone, as referred to in point 2, has unacceptable social or environmental impacts, the minimum radius of the clear-cut zone may be reduced to 100 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present. In exceptional cases of certain individual plants located within that clear-cut zone, where the Member State concludes that the felling of those plants is inappropriate, an alternative eradication measure may be applied to those plants only, offering the same level of protection against the spread of PWN. The reason for that conclusion and the description of that measure shall be notified to the Commission in the communication referred to in Article 9(1). 4. Where point 3 applies, all susceptible plants located between 100 m and 500 m from the susceptible plants in which PWN has been found to be present and exempted from felling, shall be subject to the following measures: (a) annual sampling and testing of those susceptible plants for the presence of PWN, using a sampling scheme able to confirm with 99 % reliability that the level of presence of PWN in those susceptible plants is below 0,1 %; (b) from the first year on until completion of eradication as provided for in Article 6(1) or until a decision to apply containment measures as provided for in Article 7(1), inspections every two months by Member States during the flight season of the vector of those susceptible plants for signs or symptoms of the presence of PWN, followed by sampling and testing of those plants for the presence of PWN where those signs or symptoms are observed. The reasons for the conclusion referred to in point 3 and the description of the measures set out in points (a) and (b) shall be included in the communication provided for in Article 9(1). 5. Where a Member State has evidence that the vector is not present in its territory, based on surveys for the presence of the vector in its territory in the last three years, the minimum radius of the clear-cut zone shall be 100 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found to be present, unless the surveys referred to in point 6 demonstrate the presence of the vector in the demarcated area. That evidence shall be included in the communication provided for in Article 9(1). 6. Member States shall perform annual surveys of the susceptible plants and the vector in the demarcated areas by inspecting, sampling and testing those plants and the vector for the presence of PWN. Those surveys shall give particular attention to susceptible plants which are dead, in poor health or situated in fire- or storm-affected areas. Those surveys shall also include systematic sampling of healthy-looking susceptible plants. The intensity of the surveys 3 000 m around each susceptible plant in which PWN has been found shall be at least four times higher than from 3 000 m thereof to the outer limit of the buffer zone. 7. Member States shall, throughout the demarcated area, identify and fell all susceptible plants in which PWN has been found to be present, and those which are dead, in poor health or situated in fire- or storm-affected areas. They shall remove and dispose of plants felled and logging remains, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading of PWN and its vector until the end of felling. They shall respect the following conditions: (a) susceptible plants identified outside the flight season of the vector shall, before the next flight season, be felled and either destroyed on site or removed and their wood and bark treated, as set out in point 2(a) of Section 1 of Annex III, or processed, as set out in point 2(b) of Section 2 of Annex III; (b) susceptible plants identified during the flight season of the vector shall, immediately, be felled and either destroyed on site or removed and their wood and bark treated, as set out in point 2(a) of Section 1 of Annex III, or processed, as set out in point 2(b) of Section 2 of Annex III. Felled susceptible plants in which PWN has not already been found to be present shall be sampled and tested for the presence of PWN, according to a sampling scheme able to confirm with 99 % reliability that the level of presence of PWN in those susceptible plants is below 0,1 %. Where point 5 applies, Member States may, however, decide to sample and test for the presence of PWN the susceptible plants referred to in the first subparagraph without felling them, according to a sampling scheme able to confirm with 99 % reliability that the level of presence of PWN in those susceptible plants is below 0,1 %. The first sentence shall not apply to susceptible plants in which PWN has been found to be present. 8. As regards susceptible wood identified in the demarcated area during the flight season of the vector, as referred to in point 7(b), Member States shall strip logs of felled susceptible plants of their bark, or treat those logs with an insecticide known to be effective against the vector or cover those logs with an insect net drenched with such an insecticide immediately after felling. After stripping, treating or covering, the susceptible wood shall, under official supervision, immediately be moved to a storage place or to an authorised treatment facility. Wood, which was not stripped of its bark, shall, immediately, at its storage place or at the authorised treatment facility, once more, be treated with an insecticide known to be effective against the vector or covered with an insect net drenched in such an insecticide. Wood waste produced at the time of felling of susceptible plants which is left on site shall be chipped into pieces of less than 3 cm thickness and width. 9. Member States shall remove and dispose of all susceptible plants grown in places of production of plants for planting where PWN has been detected since the beginning of the last complete growing cycle, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading of PWN and its vector during those activities. 10. Member States shall provide for a hygiene protocol for all vehicles transporting forest products and machinery for processing forest products, to ensure that PWN cannot be spread with those vehicles and machinery.