Regulation (EU) 2024/3115

What it is

to introduce changes concerning the implementation of the provisions which constitute the Union’s phytosanitary policy. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council is currently the basic legal framework for the Union plant health policy. It sets out rules on protective measures against pests of plants. Those rules include the classification and listing of regulated pests, requirements concerning the introduction into, and movement within, the Union territory of certain plants, plant products and other objects, surveys, notifications of outbreaks, measures to eradicate pests if found present in the Union territory and certification. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the report by Clara AGUILERA (S&D, ES) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards multiannual survey programmes, notifications concerning the presence of regulated non-quarantine pests, temporary derogations from import prohibitions and special import requirements and establishment of procedures for granting them, temporary import requirements for high risk plants, plant products and other objects, the establishment of procedures for the listing of high risk plants, the content of phytosanitary certificates, the use of plant passports and as regards certain reporting requirements for demarcated areas and surveys of pest. As a reminder, Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against plant pests is applicable in its entirety since December 2019. The Commission proposes to improve different implementation measures of the EU phytosanitary policy, related to the need for: 1) Declarations in the phytosanitary certificate for regulated non-quarantine pests, 2) Notifications of non-compliance with the rules applicable to regulated non-quarantine pests in the electronic notification system (official controls information management system, SGICO), 3) Procedural rules for the submission and examination of requests for temporary exceptions to import bans submitted by non-EU countries, 5) Rationalisation of the obligation to place a phytosanitary passport on certain plants. The committee responsible recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the proposal as follows: Members consider it appropriate to take advantage of this proposal for amendment to Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 to introduce some additional changes, or reinforce those proposed, such as: - inclusion of a new article on Plant Health Emergency Team , similar to what already exists in the field of animal health, in order to provide assistance to the Member State or the third country that requests it in the case of pest within the scope of this Regulation. The members of the Team should be appointed by the Commission…

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