Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2382 of 9 September 2024 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1195 as regards the template for the surveys of Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilbersky) Percival, the designation of infested production sites and the revocation of measures in infested areas

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1195 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 4(1), the following subparagraph is added: ‘Plots demarcated by the competent authorities as contaminated, in accordance with Article 2(1) of Directive 69/464/EEC, before 1 January 2022, shall be deemed to be designated as infested production sites.’; (2) Annex II is amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation; (3) In Annex IV, point 1.1. is replaced by the following: ‘1.1. After a minimum of 50 years since the last detection of the specified pest, if there is a gapless record of crops in the infested zone showing that the provisions of Article 6(2) and (3) have been complied with during the whole time and that the infested zone has not been used as permanent grassland. Where the infested zone has been used as permanent grassland, the measures may only be revoked where no signs of infection with the specified pest have been discovered in soil samples which were taken by applying the scheme to be used to obtain the soil for the testing set out in point 1.2; or’.

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