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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
Article 1 (4) of Council Directive 2000/29/EC indicates that ―The Member States shall ensure
a close, rapid, immediate and effective cooperation between themselves and the Commission
in relation to matters covered by this Directive. To this end, each Member State shall
establish or designate a single authority, which shall be responsible, at least for the
coordination and contact in relation to such matters. The official plant protection
organisation set up under the IPPC shall preferably be designated for this purpose”.
According to Article 2(1g) the responsible official bodies in a MS shall be either the official
plant protection organisation(s) or any State authority established at national and/or regional
level, and the responsible official bodies may, under certain conditions, delegate the tasks
provided for in the Directive under their authority and supervision to any legal person,
whether governed by public or by private law.
According to the responses received by the MS CAs to the general survey, the NPPO is
considered to be the Single Authority for coordination and contact with the MS and the
Commission within the meaning of Article 1(4) in nearly all MS, while in all MS, the MS
CAs indicated that the NPPO is considered to be the Responsible Official Body within the
meaning of Article 2.1(g) of the Directive.
Only in the case of BE and AT, the CAs indicated that the NPPO was not the Single
Authority within the meaning of Article 1(4), where respectively the ―Federal Public Service
of Public Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment‖ and the ―Bundesministerium für
Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft‖ have been designated for this role.
It is also noted that in the case of MS with decentralised governance (e.g. DE, ES, IT) the
Single Authority acts as a coordinator of the regions which act as the responsible official
bodies for implementation; in this case the federal authority typically carries the tasks of
coordination and supervision of the regions, contact with the Commission, other MS and third
countries, and data collection at national level. In the case of DE, the NPPO consists of the
responsible official bodies of the Federal States and the phytosanitary units of JKI and
BMELV (Ministry).
When considering the complete implementation of Directive 2000/29/EC, there is a range of
tasks and duties foreseen for the Single Authority and the Responsible Official Bodies, some
of which can be delegated to other legal bodies under certain conditions (Article 2(1g)). These
issues have been explored and are discussed further in section 3.10.1.
2.5 Overview of the CPHR main instruments
As it currently stands, the CPHR consists of a series of measures that are in place for the
control and eventually the eradication of HOs. The measures relate either to organisms listed
in the Directive and/or to non-listed ones. The key measures are explored in depth in five
thematic case studies (Themes 1-5). A schematic presentation of how the CPHR is positioned
within the wider context of the plant health system, and the detailed CPHR measures
currently in place are provided in Figure 3-2 and Table 3-1, respectively.
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