Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2507 of 26 September 2024 amending and correcting Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.) and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1770 as regards the list of plant species not exempted from the traceability code requirement for plant passports

‘1 Member States shall conduct annual surveys of the host plants, and any other plant species in case of suspicion of infection, for the detection of the specified pest in their territory. Those surveys may also cover vectors.’

‘4 Those surveys shall consist in the collection of samples and testing of plants for planting, and, if applicable, of vectors. Taking into account the European Food Safety Authority’s (Authority) Guidelines for statistically sound and risk-based surveys of Xylella fastidiosa, the survey design and the sampling scheme used shall enable detecting with a sufficient level of confidence, a low level of presence of the specified pest within the Member State concerned.

4a Where the presence of the specified pest is confirmed in a vector, in an area where the specified pest is not known to be present, the Member State concerned shall, without delay, carry out surveys in a radius of at least 400 m around the finding of the infected vector, as well as sampling and testing of host plants and any other plant species in case of suspicion of infection.’

1 In the infected zone, the Member State concerned shall apply appropriate phytosanitary treatments against all the stages of the vector population of the specified pest. In particular, it shall apply those treatments prior and during the removal of the plants referred to in Article 7(1), during the flight season of the vectors. Those practices shall include efficient chemical, biological or mechanical treatments against the vectors, taking into account the local conditions.

2 The Member State concerned shall apply: (a) in agricultural areas, in the infected zone and buffer zone, agricultural practices for the control of the vector population of the specified pest, in all its stages, at the most appropriate time of the year, regardless of the removal of the plants concerned; (b) in areas other than agricultural areas, at least in the infected zones, measures for the control of the vector population of the specified pest, in all its stages, at the most appropriate time of the year, regardless of the removal of the plants concerned. The agricultural practices referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph and measures referred to in point (b) of the first subparagraph shall include efficient chemical, biological or mechanical treatments against the vectors, as appropriate, taking into account the local conditions.’

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 is corrected as follows: (1) in Article 32, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. Such checks shall be performed at least in the locations, including roads, airports and ports, where the specified plants are moved from infected zones into buffer zones or other parts of the Union territory.’; (2) in Annex II, in the list of ‘Specified plants susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa subspecies multiplex’, the entry ‘Salvia apiana Jeps.’ is deleted.

The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1770 is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 1, point 15, points 17(b) and 18(c), and Article 3 shall apply from 1 July 2025.