Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2004 of 14 November 2016 amending Implementing Decision 2013/780/EU providing for a derogation from Article 13(1)(ii) of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of bark-free sawn wood of Quercus L., Platanus L. and Acer saccharum Marsh. originating in the United States of America (notified under document C(2016) 7181)

Implementing Decision 2013/780/EU is amended as follows: (1) Article 1 is replaced by the following: ‘By way of derogation from Article 13(1)(ii) of Directive 2000/29/EC, Member States shall be authorised to allow for the introduction into their territory of bark-free sawn wood of Quercus L. originating in the United and covered by one of the CN codes and the descriptions set out in Section I(6) of Part B of Annex V to that Directive without being accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate, provided that such wood complies with the conditions set out in the Annex to this Decision.’; (2) in Article 3, the date ‘30 November 2016’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2026’.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.