Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2970of 29 November 2024amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards measures to prevent the presence of the Tomato brown rugose fruit virus on plants for planting of Solanum lycopersicum L. and hybrids thereof and of Capsicum annuum L., and establishing the frequency rates of official controls

Article 2 shall apply until 31 December 2026.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 November 2024.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula von der Leyen

Annex

ANNEX

Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 is amended as follows:

Annex IV is amended as follows:

(a) in Part F, the following row is added to the table, under the title Viruses, viroids, virus-like diseases and phytoplasmas:

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)

Solanum lycopersicum L. and hybrids thereof

Capsicum annuum L. other than seeds belonging to a variety known to be resistant to ToBRFV

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(b) in Part I, the following row is inserted between the third and the fourth rows of the table, under the title Viruses, viroids, virus-like diseases and phytoplasmas:

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)

Solanum lycopersicum L. and hybrids thereof

Capsicum annuum L. other than plants for planting belonging to a variety known to be resistant to ToBRFV

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Annex V is amended as follows:

(a) in Part E, the following rows are added to the table, under the title Viruses, viroids, virus-like diseases and phytoplasmas:

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)Solanum lycopersicum L. and hybrids thereof

(a) the seeds originate in a country established as being free from ToBRFV by the national plant protection organisation of that country, in accordance with the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures

or

(b) (i) the seeds have been subjected to official testing or testing by professional operators under official supervision of the competent authority for ToBRFV, on a representative sample and using appropriate molecular methods, and have been found, in those tests, free from that pest;

or

(ii) in the case of a seed lot originating from 30 or less than 30 mother plants, the seeds, or the mother plant of those seeds, have been subjected to official testing, or testing by the professional operator under official supervision of the competent authority, for the presence of ToBRFV on a representative sample and using appropriate molecular methods, and have been found, in those tests, free from that pest.

Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)Capsicum annuum L., other than seeds belonging to a variety known to be resistant to ToBRFV

(a) the seeds originate in a country established as being free from ToBRFV by the national plant protection organisation of that country, in accordance with the International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures;

or

(b) (i) the seeds have been subjected to official testing or testing by professional operators under official supervision of the competent authority for ToBRFV, on a representative sample and using appropriate molecular methods, and have been found, in those tests, free from that pest;

or

(ii) in the case of a seed lot originating from 30 or less than 30 mother plants, the seeds, or the mother plant of those seeds, have been subjected to official testing, or testing by the professional operator under official supervision of the competent authority, for the presence of ToBRFV on a representative sample and using appropriate molecular methods, and have been found, in those tests, free from that pest.