Schedule

Susceptible trees

Either:

1. (a)

   The certificate shall contain an additional declaration that the material originates in an area recognised by the official plant health service of the country from which the material originates (“the relevant plant health service” in this Schedule) as being free from non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum, in which case the name of the area from where the material originates shall be specified under “place of origin”; or

2. (b)

   the certificate shall be issued only after official verification by the relevant plant health service that:

   1. (i)

      upon official inspections carried out during the last complete cycle of vegetation of the susceptible material the subject of the certificate, or upon laboratory testing of apparent symptoms of non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum, no signs of non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum have been found on susceptible material or other susceptible plant material at the place of production; and

   2. (ii)

      representative samples of the plants have been taken before shipment, and have been tested and found free from non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum in these tests, in which case the certificate shall be endorsed by the relevant plant health service under the heading “additional declaration” with the statement “tested and found free from non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum”.

Susceptible wood

One of the following alternatives is satisfied:

1. (a)

   The certificate shall contain an additional declaration that the material originates in an area recognised by the relevant plant health service as being free from non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum, in which case the name of the area from where the material originates shall be specified under “place of origin”;

2. (b)

   the certificate shall be issued only after official verification by the relevant plant health service that the wood has been stripped of its bark, and that at least one of the following applies:

   1. (i)

      that it has been squared so as to remove entirely the rounded surface;

   2. (ii)

      that the moisture content of the wood does not exceed 20% (expressed as a percentage of the dry matter); or

   3. (iii)

      that the wood has been disinfected by an appropriate hot-air or hot-water treatment;

   or

3. (c)

   in addition to the issue of a certificate, in the case of sawn wood with or without residual bark attached, there is evidence by a mark “Kiln-dried”, “KD” or another internationally recognised mark put on the wood or on its packaging in accordance with current commercial usage, and it has undergone kiln-drying to below 20% moisture content (expressed as a percentage of dry matter) at the time of manufacture, achieved through an appropriate time/temperature schedule.