Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1316 of 2 July 2025 on temporary measures to prevent the introduction into, establishment and spread within the Union territory of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones, and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072

This Regulation sets out measures to prevent the introduction into the Union territory, and the establishment and the spread within that territory, of Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘specified pest’ means Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens (Hedges) Collins and Jones; (2) ‘specified plants’ means plants for planting of Glycine max L. Merr., Phaseolus coccineus L., Phaseolus lunatus L., Phaseolus vulgaris L., Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H.Ohashi, Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper, Vigna radiata (L.) R.Wilczek, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. and Vicia faba L.

1 The competent authorities shall annually conduct risk-based surveys for the presence of the specified pest on specified plants, at appropriate times of the year to detect the specified pest. Those surveys shall be carried out by inspection of the specified plants and, in the case of any suspicion for the presence of the specified pest, by sampling and testing for that presence using appropriate methods with molecular identification.

2 By 30 April of each year, Member States shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States the results of the surveys carried out pursuant to paragraph 1 during the preceding year.

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 is amended in accordance with the Annex 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 3 shall apply until 30 April 2029. Article 4 shall apply from 23 April 2026.