# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1137 of 10 August 2018 on the supervision, plant health checks and measures to be taken on wood packaging material for the transport of commodities originating in certain third countries (notified under document C(2018) 5245), Article 4: Plant health checks

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

The wood packaging material of consignments of the specified commodities shall, on a regular basis, be subject to the plant health checks provided for in Article 13a(1)(b)(iii) of Directive 2000/29/EC, 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.
Based on the identified plant health risk, Member States shall define the rate of the wood packaging material of the specified commodities subject to plant health checks. That rate shall be no lower than 1 % of the consignments of the specified commodities. Until the completion of the checks, that wood packaging material and the respective specified commodities shall remain under customs supervision pursuant to Article 134 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 and also to supervision by the responsible official body.
Plant health checks shall take place at the point of entry into the Union or at the place of destination approved for that purpose by the responsible official body.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1137/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1137/article-4
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