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Import inspection in the EU

This index provides information on the basic requirements for import inspection in the EU, including document checks, identity checks, and practical aspects of physical inspection. It also outlines reduced frequency of inspection and inspection away from point of entry.

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Import inspection in the EU

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  1. Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) Import inspection in the EU

  2. INDEX 1. Basic requirements for import inspection • Document checks • Identity checks • Practical aspects of physical (plant health) inspection • 2. Reduced frequency of inspection • What is eligible • Examples of reduced frequency inspections • 3. Inspection away from point of entry • Place of destination • Plant health movement document

  3. 1. Basic requirements for import inspection

  4. Documentary checks • Documentary checks and the inspections for compliance (Article 13b.1) with the provisions of Annex III (2000/29/EC) must be made by the official body of point of entryorby the customs authorities of the point of entry • Legal base: • Council Directive 2000/29/EC, Article 13a 1. (b) (i)

  5. Documentary check • plants and plant products under control (Annex V B) • prohibitions • small quantities • official registration number (NPPO) • PC • botanical name, additional declaration,.. • validity (date, original …) • derogations • protected zones (Annex IV B)

  6. Identity check A check to ensure that a consignment comprises only those goods which are declared to customs and are accurately described on the phytosanitary certificate. Legal base: Council Directive 2002/89/EC amending Directive 2000/29/EC, Article 13a 1. (b) (ii)

  7. Identity check • Compare: documents and content of consignment • Identify: the commodity • Control: amount, quantity • ? non-declared items

  8. Identity check • ! prohibited and non-declared items, e.g. tourist traffic • Orchid cut flowers from TH without PC • Vine leaves from TR cooperation with customs

  9. Legal base: • Council Directive 2002/89/EC amending Directive 2000/29/EC, • Article 13a. 1. (b) (iii) Practical aspects of physical (plant health) inspection & risk assessment

  10. P R Assessment on BIP: • To reduce plant health risk Consider: • Favourable climate • Host plants/commodity • Origin - producer known/unknown • Geographical position (PQR) • PPP (available?) • Guidelines and special information • EUROPHYT-data • EPPO Reporting Service • Import surveys • Inspectors experience

  11. physical (plant health) inspection Sample size for visual inspection (risk management ) • low risk: Usually 5% • high risk: Various • Depends on PRA • Various statistical methods/calculations (EPPO!) To consider: - probability for finding of HO in a consignment should be high - 100% of a consignment cannot be inspected

  12. physical (plant health) inspection visual inspection:indicator of infestationon plants or plant products: • Feeding points • Gallery traces • Bore holes • Discoloration • Spots • Rot • Oviposition marks • .....

  13. physical (plant health) inspection visual inspection:indicator of infestationon packaging material: • pupae, adults • dung crumbs

  14. physical (plant health) inspection Sampling for laboratory test In case of Uncertainties (doubt) after visual inspection Monitoring or Internal order To do: sufficient material for laboratory appropriate packaging material (label/mark for clearly identifying) immediate dispatch

  15. PH-inspection: practical aspects, tips • Annex IV A 1: • read carefully: “origin” or “coming from” a TC • GRAINS – (rye, wheat, triticale) • To inspect: US, SA, Pakistan, Nepal, Mexico, Iraq, India, Afghanistan • WARE-POTATOES – prohibited, • Exception:Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey

  16. PH-inspection: seeds - practical aspects, tips • Seed-potatoes – prohibited! (apart from CH-origin) • on seeds most of HO are not visible ! (= bacteria, viroses: laboratory test!) • Visual examination (by laboratory) for live weevils • (Listronotusbonariensis): • seeds of Cruciferae, Gramineae and Trifolium spp. originating in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, New Zealand and Uruguay • Inspection:seeds from certain TC • Allium, Beta, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Chaenomeles, Crataegus, Cruciferae, Cydonia, Gossypium, Graminae, Helianthus annuus, Lycopersiconlycopersicum, Malus, Mangifera, Medicago sativa, Oryza, Phaseolus, Photinia, Pinus, Prunus, Pseudotsuga, Pyrus, Rosa, Rubus, Secale, Solanum, Trifolium, Triticum, Triticosecale, Vitis, Zea

  17. PH-inspection: Plants - practical aspects, tips Plants for planting = plants with roots (potted or not), scions, cuttings (rooted/ unrooted), bulbs, (! roots, soil: nematodes) • Do not forget: • Annex III of Dir. 2000/29/EC • e.g. 13. Plants of Solanaceae, intended for planting other than seeds … • Lycopersicumlycopersicon, or … • … ??? • e.g. 9. Plants of Chaenomeles, Cydonia, Crataegus, Malus, Prunus, Pyrus, Roses (intended for planting, other than dormant plants free from leaves, flowers and fruit)

  18. PH-inspection – practical aspects, tips • Mixed commodities/lots in a consignment: • origin, possibility of appropriate host plants of other “infested” lots • fees (several) weak points: • tourist traffic: luggage, souvenirs = ev. not declared • parcels per mail, Internet ! • smuggle • packing material • latent infection • soil Sampling can never prove that a pest is truly absent !

  19. Checklist • approved BIP • documentary check • identity check • plant health check • e.g. laboratory sample • fees • release or notification • documentation/report

  20. 2. Reduced frequency inspection Legal base: Dir. 2000/29/EG, Art. 13a) 2. Comm. Regulation (EC) No. 1756/2004 – detailed conditions for type and level of reduction of plant health checks

  21. Reduced frequency inspection Specifies the detailed conditions for the evidence required and the criteria for the type and level of the reduction of the plant health checks = minimum percentage of consignment to inspect (10, 20, … 50, 75 %)

  22. Not eligible: • Plants, intended for planting high risk • Derogations special conditions

  23. Eligible: 2009/2010 • Cut flowers: • Aster: Zimbabwe • Dianthus: Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, Turkey • Rosa: Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Israel, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia Fruits: • Malus: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, New Zealand, South Africa, USA • Mangifera: Brazil, Peru • Passiflora: Colombia, Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe • Prunus: Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Turkey, USA • Pyrus: Argentina, Chile, China, South Africa • Citrus: Egypt, Honduras, Israel, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Turkey, Uruguay, USA Vegetables: • Solanummelongena: Turkey Wood: • Conifer wood: Russia (european) • Acer saccharum: Canada, USA

  24. Procedure: • Application to EC-WG • Minimum of 200 consignments per year • Infestation less than 1 % of imported consignments of entire EU • Criteria: • number of consignments intercepted • mobility of HO • number of consignments in which a physical PH-inspection has been carried out • Commodities are reviewed each year, changes are possible - depending of infestation since last evaluation – risk assessment

  25. 3. Inspection away from point of entry Legal base: Dir. 2000/29/EC, Article 13c 2 (c): ‘transit’ of 3rd country material Dir. 2004/103/EC on identity and plant health checks of plants, plant products or other objects, listed in Part B of Annex V of 2000/29/EC, which may be carried out at a place other than the point of entry into the Community and specifies the conditions

  26. General: • Inspection on EU - 1st point of entry Exemption: • Inspection at place of destination under special conditions (Dir.2004/103/EC)

  27. Conditions • Agreementbetween MS of 1st point of entry and MS of destination • Approved place of inspection at destination • Specific guaranteesand minimum conditionswith regards to transport of goods, documents to the place of inspection and storage • Plant Health movement document • List of approved placesshall be availableto the Commission and to the Member States on request

  28. Procedure on 1st point of entry • Documentary check only(PC) (confirmation on the PH-Movement Doc.) • PH-Movement Doc. is given to importer for completion of customs entry/procedure • Consignment released for shipping directly to place of destination

  29. Procedure in MS of destination • Phytosanitary inspection is to complete • =identity- and plant health check • confirmation on PH-Movement Doc. • PH-Movement Doc.or a copy • retained by official body of destination for at least one year • is to transmit to Customs authority for final release/clearance

  30. Requirements for place of destination • Fulfilment of minimum conditions • laid down in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3(a) of the Annex to Directive 98/22/EC • Minimum conditions concerning the storage guaranties, separation of commodities • packaging of the consignment or the means of transport shall be closed or sealed in such a way that the products concerned cannot cause infestation or infection during their transport and … their identity will remain unchanged

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