Food Quality Magazine
ISSUE 01 | JANUARY 2016
Plant Harmful organisms in the EU
– Annual report 2014
Cesare Varallo, foodlawlatest.com, adopted from Food And Veterinary Office, EU
ous notifications.
Article 16 (1) and (2) of Directive
2000/29/EC, requires that Member
States immediately notify the
European Commission and other
Member States, of the presence or
appearance of harmful organisms
found on their territory or part of
it, as well as the measures taken to
eradicate or avoid the spread of the
harmful organism concerned.
This is required whether the harmful
organisms are regulated (specifically listed in European Union (EU)
legislation) or not. The European
Commission analyses and reports
on these notifications on a continuous basis and provides monthly
reports on notifications received to
the Standing Committee on Plants,
Animals, Food and Feed, section
Plant Health, in order to assist risk
management decisions at EU level.
This report provides an overview
of the notifications received from
Member States in 2014, as well as
the main trends in the period 2010
to 2014.
The total number of notifications
received annually has remained relatively stable since 2010. In 2014,
a total of 220 notifications were
received from 27 Member States.
Approximately two thirds of these
related to regulated harmful organisms. 19 were updates to previ-
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Some of the noti