Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards multiannual survey programmes, notifications concerning the presence of regulated non-quarantine pests, temporary derogations from import prohibitions and special import requirements and establishment of procedures for granting them, temporary import requirements for high risk plants, plant products and other objects, the establishmen

The Commission proposal consists of the targeted amendments of the plant health Regulation: (i) clarification concerning the measures against pests which are provisionally qualifying as quarantine pests but have not been fully assessed yet, (ii) amendment of the requirements regarding the declarations on the phytosanitary certificate for regulated non-quarantine pests (RNQPs), (iii) the reporting of non-compliances with the RNQP rules in the electronic notification system (Information Management System for Official Controls – IMSOC), (iv) the introduction of an empowerment for a Commission act to adopt with autonomous acts, temporary derogations from import prohibitions and special import requirements and temporary special import requirements for commodities that have been removed from the list of high-risk plants, plant products and other objects but for which the pest risk has not been fully assessed, (v) The introduction of an empowerment for a Commission act to adopt procedural rules for the submission and examination of third countries’ requests for temporary derogations from import prohibitions or from import requirements, (vi) the introduction of an empowerment for a Delegated act to adopt procedures for identifying and listing of high-risk plants, (vii) the clarification of the legal basis for setting out requirements for third countries’ equivalence, in order to refer not only to internal movement, requirements but also to existing import requirements, (viii) the introduction of an empowerment for a Commission act, to rationalise the obligation to attach a plant passport to certain plants, (ix) the alignment of the possibility to accept alternative official attestations issued by third countries with the international state of play, (x) rationalisation of certain reporting obligations