
Article 1 
For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:

((a)) ‘specified organism’ means Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV);
((b)) ‘specified plants for planting’ means plants for planting, of Solanum lycopersicum L. and Capsicum annuum;
Article 2 
The introduction into, and movement within, the Union of the specified organism shall be prohibited.
Article 3 
Member States shall ensure that any person having under its control plants which may be infected with the specified organism is immediately informed of the presence or the suspected presence of the specified organism, of the possible consequences and risks, and of the measures to be taken to prevent the establishment and spread of the specified organism.
Article 4 

1. Member States shall conduct annual surveys for the presence of the specified organism on host plants in their territory.
2. Those surveys shall be carried out by the responsible official body, or under official supervision of the responsible official body. Those surveys shall include laboratory testing and shall be based on sound scientific and technical principles with regard to the possibility to detect the specified organism.
3. Member States shall notify the Commission and the other Member States, by 31 January of each year, of the results of the surveys that were carried out in the preceding calendar year.
Article 5 
The specified plants for planting, originating within the Union territory, may only be moved within the Union if they are accompanied by a plant passport prepared and issued in accordance with Commission Directive 92/105/EEC and if they fulfil one of the following requirements:

((a)) they originate in areas where the specified organism is known not to occur;
((b)) in the case of plants for planting, other than seeds:

((i)) they originate in a production site where the specified organism is known not to occur on the basis of official inspections carried out at the appropriate time to detect that organism; and
((ii)) they derive from seeds which either originate in areas free from the specified organism or have undergone official testing for the specified organism on a representative sample using appropriate methods, and have been found, in these tests, to be free of the specified organism;
((c)) in the case of seeds, official sampling and testing for the specified organism has been carried out, on a representative sample using appropriate methods, and they have been found, in these tests, to be free of the specified organism.
Article 6 
Specified plants for planting shall only be introduced into the Union if they are accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate referred to in Article 13(1)(ii) of Directive 2000/29/EC and if they fulfil one of the following requirements:

((a)) The specified plants for planting shall originate in a third country free from the specified organism, as established by the national plant protection organisation concerned, in accordance with the relevant International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures. That information shall be stated in the phytosanitary certificate under ‘Additional Declaration’.
((b)) The specified plants for planting shall originate in an area free from the specified organism, as established by the national plant protection organisation concerned, in accordance with the relevant International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures. The name of that area shall be stated in the phytosanitary certificate under ‘place of origin’.
((c)) Where the specified plants for planting originate in third countries or areas other than those referred to in points (a) and (b), they shall fulfil the following requirements:

((i)) in the case of specified plants for planting, other than seeds:

— they have been produced in a production site which is registered and supervised by the national plant protection organisation in the country of origin and known to be free from the specified organism on the basis of official inspections carried out at the appropriate time to detect that organism; and
— they derive from seeds which either originate in areas free from the specified organism or have undergone official testing for the specified organism on a representative sample using appropriate methods, and have been found, in these tests, to be free of the specified organism. Reference to the testing shall be included under ‘Additional Declaration’ of the phytosanitary certificate.
Information ensuring the traceability of the specified plants for planting to their site of production shall be available;
((ii)) in the case of seeds, official sampling and testing for the specified organism has been carried out, on a representative sample using appropriate methods, and they have been found, in these tests, to be free of the specified organism. Reference to the testing shall be included under ‘Additional Declaration’ of the phytosanitary certificate.
Article 7 
All consignments of specified plants for planting introduced into the Union shall be officially checked at the point of entry into the Union or at the place of destination as provided for in accordance with Commission Directive 2004/103/EC.
Article 8 
This Decision shall apply from 1 November 2019.
Article 9 
This Decision shall apply until 31 March 2022.
Article 10 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 26 September 2019.
For the Commission
Vytenis ANDRIUKAITIS
Member of the Commission