Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 531/2011 of 31 May 2011 amending Regulation (EC) No 1480/2004 laying down specific rules concerning goods arriving from the areas not under the effective control of the Government of Cyprus in the areas in which the Government exercises effective control

Regulation (EC) No 1480/2004 is hereby amended as follows: (1) in Article 3(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘In the case of potatoes, the independent phytosanitary experts shall verify that the potatoes in the consignment were grown directly from seed potatoes certified in one of the Member States or from seed potatoes certified in any other country for which the entry into the Union of potatoes intended for planting is not prohibited pursuant to Annex III to Directive 2000/29/EC or from farm saved seed potatoes which were, under supervision of the experts, grown as the first offspring of the certified seed potatoes referred to in this paragraph’; (2) Annex III is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

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