Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘specified pest’ means Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann & Kotthoff 1914) Nouioui et al. 2018; (2) ‘specified plants’ means plants of Solanum tuberosum L., other than seeds; (3) ‘volunteer specified plants’ means specified plants which appear in the places of production without having been planted; (4) ‘tubers intended to be planted in their place of production’ means tubers produced in a specific place of production which are intended to permanently remain in that place and are not intended to be certified; (5) ‘highly infected area’ means an area in the Union, where the number of outbreak sites identified during annual surveys during a continuous period of more than 10 years have demonstrated that the specified pest is present in multiple locations, and where it cannot be excluded that that pest is also present in production sites which are not under official supervision.