ANNEX IISupplementary provisions
ANNEX II Containment measures provided for in Article 7 1. Member States shall in accordance with Article 7 take measures in the demarcated areas, which shall have a buffer zone having a width of at least 20 km, to contain PWN, as set out in points 2 and 3. Member States shall include a detailed description of those measures in the communication provided for in Article 9(1). 2. Member States shall perform annual surveys of the susceptible plants and the vector in the infested zones 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. Member States shall fell all susceptible plants in which PWN is found to be present and remove and dispose of those plants and their logging remains, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading of PWN and its vector. 3. Member States shall take the following measures in the buffer zones: (a) Member States shall perform annual surveys of the susceptible plants and the vector in the buffer zones 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. (b) Member States shall, throughout the concerned buffer zones, identify and fell all susceptible plants 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 up to and during felling and under the following conditions: (i) Susceptible plants identified outside the flight season of the vector shall, before the next flight season, be felled and destroyed on site, moved under official control into the infested zone or removed. In the last case the wood and bark of those plants shall either be 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. (ii) Susceptible plants identified during the flight season of the vector shall, immediately, be felled and destroyed on site, moved under official control into the infested zone or removed. In the last case the wood and bark of those plants shall either be 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, other than plants completely destroyed by forest fires, 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 0,02 %. (c) As regards susceptible wood identified in the buffer zone during the flight season of the vector, as referred to in point 3(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 in 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. 4. 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.