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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
Treaty in Dec. 1, 2009 co-decision Council and Parliament, and therefore delay the process. Only
their technical annexes can be modified through comitology 152 .
The vast majority of the organisations consulted by the evaluation consider that the CPHR has
only partly been successful in preventing the entry, establishment and spread of the HOs in the
EU, mainly because several difficulties have been experienced in defining and implementing
official measures for the eradication and containment of HOs.
General survey results
Q6.1 (stakeholders): Extent to which, during the last 15 years, the CPHR has been successful in preventing
the entry, establishment and spread of HOs in the MS:
22 out of 24 MS CAs and 23 out of 26 stakeholders consider that the CPHR has been only partly successful in
preventing the entry and the establishment of HOs in the EU.
In particular, the control and emergency measures are only partly considered to have been
effective in achieving the objectives for which they have been set, with nearly a third of MS CAs
and stakeholders considering the measures not to have been effective in eradicating the targeted
pests (emergency measures) or in containing/reducing the targeted pests (control measures):
General survey results
Q6.6*: Extent to which, during the last 15 years, the EU emergency measures have been effective in
eradicating the targeted pests, and the EU control Directives have been effective in containing/reducing the
respective pests:
11 out of 26 MS CAs (9 do not know) and 10 out of 25 stakeholders (8 do not know) consider that the EU
emergency and control measures have been effective**.
* Q 6.6 for CA q/naire and Q6.5 for stakeholder q/naire
** the large number of ‗do not know‘ responses reflects divergence of opinion within the organisations, while in the
case of stakeholders it may also be due to the fact that the measures are specific to some sectors and may have
therefore not been relevant for some of the stakeholders that responded to the survey
The situation has to be analysed case by case, taking into account mainly the biology of the HOs
and the agro-climatic conditions of the region in which the HO occurs. Interviewees stressed that
several biological factors (e.g. life cycle of the given HO, optimal flying period, preferred hosts
and minor hosts, and effect of population density of the pest or host), which are specific to the
location of the outbreak, are critical for determining the outcome, effectiveness and efficiency of
an eradication programme.
The effectiveness of the emergency and control measures in reaching their objectives for each
specific HO has been rated as follows by respondents to the general survey (Q6.6):
Table 3-15: Effectiveness of emergency and control measures by HO*
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As discussed in section 2.7, the definition of the legal framework to replace the Comitology procedure is currently
on going and it is therefore not possible at the time of redaction of this report to discuss implications of changes
brought about by the Lisbon Treaty.
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