Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/74 of 26 January 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 on measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)

‘2 By way of derogation from point (a) and from the first subparagraph of point (b) of paragraph 1, specified seeds that have been harvested prior to 15 August 2020 shall have been sampled and tested for the specified pest by the competent authority or by professional operators under official supervision of the competent authority and found free from that pest, before their first movement within the Union. The specified seeds moved for the first time within the Union from 1 April 2021 on, and which have been tested before 30 September 2020 with Elisa method, shall be tested again with a testing method, other than ELISA, as referred to in point 3 of the Annex.’;

‘3 By way of derogation from point (a)(i) of paragraph 1, for the specified seeds, which have been harvested prior to 15 August 2020, the Additional Declaration shall only state the fulfilment of the condition under point (a)(ii) of paragraph 1 and shall include the statement: “The seeds have been harvested before 15 August 2020.”’;

‘4 In phytosanitary certificates issued after 31 March 2021, the Additional Declaration shall confirm that specified seeds originating from third countries have been tested under one of the testing methods, other than ELISA, as referred to in point 3 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191.’

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