
Article 1 
Implementing Decision 2013/780/EU is amended as follows:

((1)) Article 1 is replaced by the following:
'By way of derogation from Article 13(1)(ii) of Directive 2000/29/EC, Member States shall be authorised to allow for the introduction into their territory of bark-free sawn wood of Quercus L. originating in the United and covered by one of the CN codes and the descriptions set out in Section I(6) of Part B of Annex V to that Directive without being accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate, provided that such wood complies with the conditions set out in the Annex to this Decision.';
((2)) in Article 3, the date ‘30 November 2016’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2026’.
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 November 2016.
For the Commission
Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
Member of the Commission