Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2461 of 29 September 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2095 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into, establishment and spread within the Union territory of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster)

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2095 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 2, point (2) is replaced by the following: ‘(2) “specified plants” means plants for planting that have a stem or root collar diameter of 1 cm or more at their thickest point, of Acer spp., Aesculus spp., Alnus spp., Betula spp., Carpinus spp., Citrus spp., Cornus spp., Corylus spp., Cotoneaster spp., Crataegus spp., Fagus spp., Lagerstroemia spp., Malus spp., Melia spp., Ostrya spp., Photinia spp., Platanus spp., Populus spp., Prunus laurocerasus, Pyrus spp., Rosa spp., Salix spp., Ulmus spp. and Vaccinium corymbosum;’; (2) in Article 2, point (4) is replaced by the following: ‘(4) “host plants” means plants for planting, that have a stem or root collar diameter of 1 cm or more at their thickest point, of Acer spp., Aesculus spp., Alnus spp., Betula spp., Carpinus spp., Chaenomeles spp., Citrus spp., Cornus spp., Corylus spp., Cotoneaster spp., Crataegus spp., Cryptomeria spp., Fagus spp., Ficus spp., Hibiscus spp., Lagerstroemia spp., Malus spp., Melia spp., Morus spp., Ostrya spp., Parrotia spp., Photinia spp., Platanus spp., Populus spp., Prunus laurocerasus, Pyrus spp., Rosa spp., Salix spp., Ulmus spp. and Vaccinium corymbosum;’; (3) in Article 2, the following point is added: ‘(6) “demarcated area for containment” means an area, where the specified pest cannot be eradicated, listed in Annex II.’; (4) in Article 6(2), point (b) is replaced by the following: ‘(b) during at least one life cycle of the specified pest plus one additional year, and at least four consecutive years, survey a width of at least 1 km around the infested plants or the place where the specified pest was found, regularly and intensively at least during the first year and in accordance with Article 3; however that surveillance may not take place in the cases where the presence or emergence of adults of the specified pest in the plant, wood or wood packaging material can unequivocally be excluded and where the reasons for this conclusion have been communicated to the Commission in writing;’; (5) in Article 8(1), the fourth subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The surveys in the buffer zone shall be based on the Authority’s General guidelines for statistically sound and risk-based surveys for plant pests, and the survey design and sampling scheme used in the buffer zone shall be able to identify with at least 95% of confidence, a level of presence of infested plants of 1 %. However, within the width of at least 1 km around the places of production of the host plants, the survey design and sampling scheme used shall be able to identify with at least 99 % confidence level, a level of presence of infested plants of 1 %.’; (6) in Article 9(1), the fifth subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The surveys in the buffer zone shall be based on the Authority’s General guidelines for statistically sound and risk-based surveys for plant pests, and the survey design and sampling scheme used in the buffer zone shall be able to identify with at least 95 % of confidence, a level of presence of infested plants of 1 %. However, within the width of at least 1 km around the places of production of the host plants, they shall be able to identify with at least 99 % confidence level, a level of presence of infested plants of 1 %.’; (7) Articles 10, 11 and 12 are deleted; (8) Annex II is replaced by the text in 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.