Legislation: Phytosanitary Requirements/Restrictions/Prohibitions

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• Legislation: Phytosanitary Requirements/Restrictions/Prohibitions

Publication Date

07-10-2020

Last Updated

07-10-2020

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Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 establishes uniform conditions to implement Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. The phytosanitary requirements for import into the EU (including Romania) are specified in the Annexes of this Regulation: • Annex II, III, and IV list the quarantine pests, protected zone quarantine pests, and regulated non-quarantine pests • Annex VI specifies the import prohibitions • Annex VII lists specific phytosanitary import requirements which plants and plant products imported into the EU shall comply with • Annex IX specifies import prohibitions for specific protected zones • Annex X lists the special requirements for import in specific protected zones • Annex XI specifies the list of plants, plant products and other objects subject to phytosanitary certificates (and those for which such certificates are not required for their introduction into the Union territory) • Annex XII lists the plants, plant products and other objects for which a phytosanitary certificate is required for their introduction into a protected zone from certain third countries of origin or dispatch In addition, to enhance prevention, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 establishes the list of high risk plants, the introduction of which into the EU territory will be provisionally prohibited from 14 December 2019 until a full risk assessment has been carried out. The rules concerning the procedure to be followed in order to carry out the risk assessment of high-risk plants are detailed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2018. More details can be found on the following links: https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/plant_health_biosecurity/legislation/new_eu_rules_en

EU_2019_2072 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/RO/TXT/?qid=1600069351539&uri=CELEX:02019R2072-20200816

EU_2016_2031 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/RO/TXT/?qid=1600069595705&uri=CELEX:02016R2031-20191214

EU_2018_2019: High Risk plants

http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/2019/2019-12-14

EU_2018_2018:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/RO/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32018R2018&rid=1

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