Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/358 of 21 February 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630 as regards the list of demarcated areas for containment of Grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC (1), and in particular Article 28(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 (2) lays down, in Part B of Annex II thereto, the list of Union quarantine pests known to occur in the Union territory.

(2) Grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma (‘the specified pest’) is included in that list, as it is known to occur in certain parts of the Union territory, having significant impact on the cultivation of plants of Vitis L., the main hosts of that pest.

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630 (3) establishes measures for the containment of the specified pest within certain demarcated areas, as well as the list of areas in Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain subject to those measures.

(4) Since the adoption of that Regulation, surveys carried out pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 show that the eradication of the specified pest in the demarcated areas under eradication in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, and in Tuscany and Lombardy, Italy is no longer possible. Consequently, Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630 should be amended to include in its list for containment those areas.

(5) Furthermore, and on the basis of the surveys carried out pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, several areas for containment located in Croatia, Portugal and Slovenia, as listed in Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630, should be enlarged to include more municipalities. As a consequence, the buffer zones of demarcated areas for containment of Slovenia should be extended to Austria and the extension of buffer zones in the territory of Spain of demarcated areas for containment in Portugal should be revised.

(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Amendments to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630

Annex I to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 February 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/2031/oj.

(2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 (OJ L 319, 10.12.2019, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2072/oj).

(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1630 of 21 September 2022 establishing measures for the containment of Grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma within certain demarcated areas (OJ L 245, 22.9.2022, p. 27, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2022/1630/oj).