Legislation

EU Legislation

Plant health:

Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC (link: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/2031/oj)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 (link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2072/oj)

Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 provides the basis on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (link: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2000/29/2019-09-01).

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/829 of 14 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants, authorising Member States to provide for temporary derogations in view of official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selections, or breeding (link: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2019/829/oj)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2018  of 18 December 2018 laying down specific rules concerning the procedure to be followed in order to carry out the risk assessment of high risk plants, plant products and other objects within the meaning of Article 42(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 of 18 December 2018 establishing a provisional list of high risk plants, plant products or other objects, within the meaning of Article 42 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 and a list of plants for which phytosanitary certificates are not required for introduction into the Union, within the meaning of Article 73 of that Regulation .

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/66 of 16 January 2019 on rules on uniform practical arrangements for the performance of official controls on plants, plant products and other objects in order to verify compliance with Union rules on protective measures against pests of plants applicable to those goods.

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2123 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for the cases where and the conditions under which identity checks and physical checks on certain goods may be performed at control points and documentary checks may be performed at distance from border control posts.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2130 of 25 November 2019 establishing detailed rules on the operations to be carried out during and after documentary checks, identity checks and physical checks on animals and goods subject to official controls at border control posts (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2130/oj)

Marketing standards:

Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishes a common organization of the markets for agricultural products, which means all the products listed in Annex I to the Treaties, with the exception of the fishery and aquaculture products as defined in Union legislative acts on the common organization of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 of 7 June 2011 lays down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 in respect of the fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetables sectors.

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1333/2011 of 19 December 2011 lays down marketing standards for bananas, rules on the verification of compliance with those marketing standards and requirements for notifications in the banana sector.

Wood packaging material

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/127 of 3 February 2021 setting the requirements for the introduction into the Union territory of wood packaging material for the transport of certain commodities originating in certain third countries and for plant health checks on such material, and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1137

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2125 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules concerning the performance of specific official controls of wood packaging material, notification of certain consignments and measures to be taken in cases of non-compliance.

More information:

EU Plant Health Legislation (EC website)

Belgian Legislation

Royal Decree of 22 February 2021 concerning the protective measures against quarantine organisms  on plants and plant products and amending various provisions on harmful organisms

Last updated: 19/01/2023