
Article 1 
Decision 2006/133/EC is amended as follows:

1.. Article 4 is replaced by the following:
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Article 4 

1. Member States shall conduct official annual surveys for PWN, on susceptible wood and bark and susceptible plants originating in their country, to determine whether there is any evidence of infestation by PWN.Without prejudice to Article 16(1) of Directive 2000/29/EC, the results of such surveys shall be notified to the other Member States and the Commission annually by 15 December.
2. In addition to the surveys provided for in paragraph 1, Portugal shall prepare a survey plan for the entire Portuguese territory and present it to the Commission for approval. That plan shall be risk-based and take into account the distribution of susceptible plants within the Portuguese territory. In case this survey plan is not submitted by 16 May 2008, the Commission may take appropriate measures.The results of the survey carried out on the basis of that plan shall be notified to the Commission and the other Member States as soon as they are available.'
2.. In Article 5, the third paragraph is replaced by the following:
'That list shall be updated according to the results of the surveys referred to in Article 4 and to the findings notified under Article 16(1) of Directive 2000/29/EC.'
3.. The Annex to Decision 2006/133/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 15 May 2008.
For the Commission
Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

In the third indent of point 2(a)(iii) of the Annex to Decision 2006/133/EC, a second subparagraph is added:
'However, where an outbreak of PWN is detected in an area where it was known not to occur, that area shall be demarcated (new demarcated area) and, for a period of one year from the date of detection, such plants in that area shall be tested in all cases when situated in the part of the demarcated area where PWN is known to occur, and, when situated in the part of the demarcated area designated as buffer zone, be tested on the basis of a representative sampling. The second and third sentence of the first subparagraph shall apply.'
