Notice - Notification of WTO Members: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1688 of 20 September 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 as regards the lists of host plants and specified plants, and the tests for the identification of Xylella fastidiosa


WTO code G/SPS/N/EU/507
Date notice 21/09/2021
Notice type Regular
Title Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1688 of 20 September 2021 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 as regards the lists of host plants and specified plants, and the tests for the identification of Xylella fastidiosa
Summary

On 23 June 2021, the European Food Safety Authority updated the database of host plants susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.). Annexes I and II to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 are therefore amended accordingly. 

For reasons of transparency and clarity, it is indicated, for each of the tests listed in Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201, the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that allows direct access to the scientific articles describing those tests. 

Product Xylella fastidiosa host plants: the list of Annex I of Regulation 2020/1201, is updated with the inclusion of the following species: Adenocarpus lainzii, Ampelopsis brevipedunculata var. hancei, Athyrium filix-femina, Catharanthus roseus, Digitarium, chium plantagineum, Erysimum hybrids, Humulus scandens (Lour.) Merr., Lavatera cretica, Lonicera implexa, Lupinus aridorum, Lupinus villlosus, Perovskia abrotanoides, Polygala grandiflora, Psidium, Pteridium aquilinum, Ruta chalapensis, Salvia officinalis, Salvia rosmarinus, Santolina magonica, Ulmus
Country European Union

File attach:
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Orther Notice:


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