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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain) Although the findings of the evaluation on the significant failures of the current implementation of the PZ system were largely confirmed by the feedback of participants to the February conference, and despite earlier indications in the general survey response, the conference and subsequent response identified insufficient support for a more profound revision of the system. As in the case of the plant passport system, to some extent this reflects the fact that implementation of PZs and the experience of MS has been very varied, and this makes it difficult to find consensus 298 . MS that currently benefit from PZs largely want to maintain the status quo, while MS that do not benefit or may actually incur costs from the system (for example because their products cannot enter a PZ) want to revise the system. These issues need to be taken into account when examining possible options for the future. An analysis of the PFA concept and comparison to the EU PZ system was already provided in section 3.6.3). It is important to note that the PZ and PFA concepts are not necessarily alternatives and indeed could be complementary. Both concepts aim to guarantee freedom from pests. However, while the PZ concept in practice focuses on guarantees to prevent the introduction of a pest into the protected zone via intra-EU movements and imports (with the ability to export under the same guarantees being a subsidiary objective), the PFA focuses on ensuring that products can be exported from the area free of pests (with the ability to enforce requirements on guarantees for imported products as a subsidiary objective). In this sense, the PZ system allows protection via specific requirements on imports while the PFA system allows freedom to export via certification. It is therefore possible that a MS or area within an MS applies the two concepts simultaneously. As also previously noted (in section 3.6.3), the credibility issue (vis à vis third countries) is not unique to the EU PZ system, but these are common problems and relatively frequently occurring with PFA recognition in the WTO-SPS and IPPC context (IPPC established an open-ended working group to examine the feasibility of international recognition of PFAs and concluded that this was not seen as achievable). In conclusion: The key problem with PZ system is loss of credibility from poor implementation, but PFAs can also be difficult to implement and can thus result in poor implementation; In this sense, whatever option will be selected the key objective needs to be to restore credibility; PFAs are not an alternative to PZs, indeed in the context of the single market (i.e. no internal controls on movement of products within the EU) the PFA concept would be difficult to implement without the form of regionalization currently offered by PZ ( protection within the area); 298 It is noted that in the general survey a large number of respondents (6 MS CAs and 15 stakeholders) indicated ‗do not know‟, and it was confirmed that this largely reflects the divergence in positions even within organisations. Food Chain Evaluation Consortium 358
Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain) Recommendation 8: The analysis of options for tightening the Protected Zones (PZ) system suggests that option i (Status quo with improvements) is the most recommended starting point, on the basis that it represents the best balance of advantages/disadvantages against anticipated impacts, while appearing to be the most acceptable. Longer term, there is also a need to further examine the implications of applying more widely the PFA concept (ISPM 4). Food Chain Evaluation Consortium 359
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