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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
origin‘ as ‗risky‘ from a phytosanitary point of view 259 . The concept of ‗country of origin‘ is
defined as ‗the country where the goods come from‘ by the Customs authorities whereas it
corresponds to the ‗country where the plants grew‘ for the phytosanitary authorities.
The cooperation of the implementation of plant health import rules with customs systems and
procedures was also analysed in section 3.4.3 of the Report.
3.12.7 Coherence with EU Animal Health Strategy
Respondents to the general survey and interviewees did not identify any areas of
inconsistency between the CPHR and the new EU Animal Health Strategy but their comments
and opinions mainly focused on the principles that are of interest to the CPHR.
General survey results
Q 9.1 Source of inconsistencies between CPHR and EU Animal Health Strategy:
2 out of 25 MS CAs and 0 out of 21 stakeholders consider that there are inconsistencies between the CPHR and
the EU Animal Health Strategy (7 MS CAs and 19 stakeholders do not know).
Q 9.2 Extent to which the revision of the CPHR in future should be guided by any of the principles
developed under the EU Animal Health Strategy:
7 out of 25 MS CAs and 1 out of 23 stakeholder consider that the revision of the CPHR should be guided by the
EU Animal Health Strategy (8 MS CA and 20 stakeholders do not know).
Overall, they consider that the CPHR should gain from with the experience of the EU Animal
Health Strategy, in particular from the following principles or concepts:
Higher formalisation and rigour due to strong public interest issues (e.g. for nature
and forest conservation, rural landscapes, generally considered as public goods);
The need for improved diagnosis, with the establishment of reference laboratories (at
national level, possibly also at EU level), benefiting from the experience of NRLs
and EU-RLs in the animal health sector;
Approaches to improve the link to Community Customs Codes;
Greater emphasis on prevention and early reaction at production level;
Greater emphasis on prevention and early reaction at import level;
Approaches to improve notification and traceability;
Harmonisation of documentation and certification requirements;
Approaches to regionalisation.
It is noted that the plant health sector requires a significantly more extensive and disperse
plant health supervision system (number of plants, number of quarantine organisms, number
of entities) than the animal health sector, and this needs to be taken into account when
examining the feasibility of implementing the methods and measures applied in the animal
health sector.
Some respondents to the general survey identified a certain overlap between the plant health
and the animal health legislations as regards the import of invertebrates. It appears that the
259 An example given was Quercus coming from the USA or Armenia, because of the risk of introducing
Ceratocystis fagacearum in the EU
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