
Article 1 
Without prejudice to points 16.1, 16.2, 16.3 and 16.5, and by way of derogation from point 16.4(c) and (d) of Section I of Part A of Annex IV to Directive 2000/29/EC, fruits of Citrus L., Fortunella Swingle, Poncirus Raf., and their hybrids, other than fruits of Citrus aurantium L. and Citrus latifolia Tanaka, originating in South Africa (hereinafter ‘the specified fruits’), shall only be introduced into the Union if they comply with the requirements laid down in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2 
The importing Member States shall submit to the Commission and the other Member States, each year before 31 December, a report with information on the amounts of the specified fruits introduced into the Union under this Decision during the previous import season. That report shall also include the results of the inspections referred to in point 2 of the Annex.
Article 3 
Member States shall immediately notify the Commission, the other Member States and South Africa of a confirmed finding of the specified organism.
Article 4 
Implementing Decision 2013/754/EU is repealed.
Article 5 
This Decision shall apply from 24 July 2014.
Article 6 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 2 July 2014.
For the Commission
Tonio BORG
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
1.  1.1. 

a)) the specified fruits originate in a field of production which has been subjected to treatments against the specified organism carried out at the appropriate time since the beginning of the last cycle of vegetation;
b)) an official inspection has been carried out in the field of production during the growing season and no symptoms of the specified organism have been detected in the specified fruit since the beginning of the last cycle of vegetation;
c)) a sample has been taken along the line between arrival and packaging in the packing facilities of at least 600 fruits of each species per 30 tonnes, or part thereof, selected as much as possible on the basis of any possible symptom of the specified organism; all sampled fruits showing symptoms have been tested and found free of the specified organism;
 1.2. In the case of Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Valencia’, the phytosanitary certificate shall, under the heading ‘Additional declaration’, also include the statement that a sample per 30 tonnes, or part thereof, has been tested for latent infection and found free of the specified organism.
 1.3. 

((a)) the field of production, the packing facilities, exporters and any other operator involved in the handling of the specified fruits shall be officially registered for that purpose;
((b)) detailed information on the pre- and post-harvest treatments shall be kept;
((c)) throughout their movement, from the field of production to the point of export to the Union, the specified fruits shall be accompanied by documents issued under the supervision of the National Plant Protection Organisation of South Africa, as part of a documentary system on which information is made available to the Commission by South Africa.

2.  2.1. The specified fruits shall be visually inspected at the point of entry or at the place of destination established in accordance with Commission Directive 2004/103/EC. Those inspections shall be carried out on samples of at least 200 fruits of each species of the specified fruits by batch of 30 tonnes, or part thereof, selected on the basis of any possible symptom of the specified organism.
 2.2. 

((i)) refusal of entry into the Union;
((ii)) destruction, other than by processing.
