Contingency plans
Article 3
1. Each Member State shall establish a contingency plan. That contingency plan shall set out the actions to be taken in its territory concerning: (a) the eradication of the specified pest, as set out in Articles 7 to 11; (b) the movements of specified plants within the Union, as set out in Articles 19 to 26; (c) the official checks to be carried out on movements of specified plants within the Union and of host plants into the Union, as set out in Articles 32 and 33. Each Member State shall update its contingency plan, as appropriate, by 31 December of each year. Contingency plans established under Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789 shall be updated by 31 December 2020. 2. In addition to the elements referred to in Article 25(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, the contingency plan shall include all of the following elements: (a) the minimum resources to be made available and the procedures for making those additional resources available in case of a confirmed or suspected presence of the specified pest; (b) rules detailing the procedures for identifying the owners of the plants to be removed, for notifying the order of removal and for accessing private properties.