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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
originates from a registered and officially inspected place of production 128 . Any producers of the
material listed in Annex V, Part A of the base Directive must be listed in an official register and
are subject to inspections by the NPPO services during the growing period and immediately after
harvest; any material moving out from registered holdings must be accompanied by a PP. For
imported material, the phytosanitary certificate is replaced by a PP when consignments are
cleared by customs services. A more complete description of the current rules relating to intra-
Community movement of plants and plants products is provided in Annex 1 (Theme 3).
This section examines the implementation of the various provisions under the intra-Community
movement 129 , including: the functioning of the plant passport (PP) system in general; the extent
of the need for harmonization of the PP document; the functioning of the producers‘ registration
system and the functioning of the authorization system for registered nurseries to issue PPs; the
use of the PP as a phytosanitary traceability tool and the relevance of establishing such
traceability; and the provisions for small producers for local markets and professional versus
final consumption use.
3.5.1 Functioning of the plant passport system in general
For a large majority of respondents to the general survey the plant passport provisions and their
implementation have been largely effective in ensuring the free circulation of plants and plant
products (Q4.1.b). Some impediments to trade have been reported by stakeholders, particularly
in relation to the plant passport (PP) document and in the case of issuance of PPs by the NPPO in
MS where this task has not been delegated to authorised registered holdings under NPPO
supervision.
On the other hand, the survey response strongly indicates that the performance of the current
system is less satisfactory when considering the effectiveness of the plant passport provisions
and their implementation for preventing the spread of HOs in the EU (Q4.1.a). The majority of
both MS CAs and stakeholders consider that the current system has not been effective for
preventing the spread of HOs, as is highlighted in the figures below.
General survey results
Q4.1.a Extent to which the plant health rules for intra-Community trade have been effective for preventing
the spread of HOs:
Provisions MS CA Stakeholders
Overall system 9 out of 25 (2 do not know) 17 out of 25 (3 do not know)
Plant passport (PP) document 9 out of 26 (3 do not know) 12 out of 23 (9 do not know)
128 Commission Directive 92/90/EEC of 3 November 1992 establishing obligations to which producers and
importers of plants, plant products and other objects are subject and establishing details for their registration; and
Commission Directive 93/50/EEC specifying certain plants not listed in Annex V, part A to Council Directive
77/93/EEC, the producers of which, or the warehouses, dispatching centres in the production zones of such plants,
shall be listed in an official register.
129 The effectiveness of the protected zone plant passport has been analysed in section 3.6 and is therefore not
repeated here. Also, the analysis of the official plant health movement document for re-export and of the intra-EU
phytosanitary communication document for transit is presented in section 3.8.
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