{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-474/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/474",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/474 of 18 March 2015 amending Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU on the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material actually in use in the transport of specified commodities originating in China (notified under document C(2015) 1684)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-474",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Implementing Decision 2013/92/EU is amended as follows:\n1.. The first paragraph of Article 3 is replaced by the following:\n‘The wood packaging material of consignments of the specified commodities shall be subject to the plant health checks provided for in Article 13a(1)(b)(iii) of Directive 2000/29/EC at the minimum frequencies set out in Annex I to this Decision to confirm that the wood packaging material meets the requirements laid down in point (2) of Section I of Part A of Annex IV to Directive 2000/29/EC.’\n2.. Article 4 is replaced by the following:\n‘Measures in case of non-compliance\nArticle 4 Where the plant health checks referred to in Article 3 show that point (2) of Section I of Part A of Annex IV to Directive 2000/29/EC is not complied with or that the wood packaging material is contaminated by harmful organisms listed in Part A of Annex I to that Directive, the Member State concerned shall immediately subject the non-compliant wood packaging material to one of the measures provided for in Article 13c(7) of that Directive’.\n3.. Article 5 is replaced by the following:\n‘Reporting\nArticle 5 Without prejudice to Commission Directive 94/3/EC, Member States shall notify the number and the results of the plant health checks carried out in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 of this Decision to the Commission using the reporting template in Annex II by 31 July 2016 for the period from 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 and by 31 July 2017 for the period from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017.’\n4.. The second paragraph of Article 7 is replaced by the following:\n‘Articles 1 to 4 shall apply until 31 March 2017.’\n5.. Annexes I and II are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Directive 94/3/EC of 21 January 1994 establishing a procedure for the notification of interception of a consignment or a harmful organism from third countries and presenting an imminent phytosanitary danger (OJ L 32, 5.2.1994, p. 37).’"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/474/article/1",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}