Directive 2001/32/EC is amended as follows:
Article 1 is replaced by the following:
The zones in the Community listed in the Annex are recognised as protected zones within the meaning of the first subparagraph of Article 2(1)(h) of Directive 2000/29/EC, in respect of the harmful organism(s) listed against their names in the Annex to this Directive.’
Article 2 is deleted.
The Annex is amended as follows:
In point 2 of heading (a), the words in brackets after ‘Portugal’ are replaced by the following words ‘Azores, Beira Interior, Beira Litoral, Entre Douro e Minho, Madeira, Ribatejo e Oeste (communes of Alcobaça, Alenquer, Bombarral, Cadaval, Caldas da Rainha, Lourinhã, Nazaré, Obidos, Peniche and Torres Vedras) and Trás-os-Montes’.
In points 3.1, 11 and 13 of heading (a), the words ‘(until 31 March 2008)’ are inserted after the word ‘Cyprus’.
Point 2 of heading (b) is replaced by the following:
‘Spain, Estonia, France (Corsica), Italy (Abruzzi; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Lazio; Liguria; Marche; Molise; Piedmont; Sardinia; Sicily; Tuscany; Umbria; Valle d’Aosta), Latvia, Portugal, Finland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands),
and, until 31 March 2008, Ireland, Italy (Apúlia, Emilia-Romagna: provinces of Forlí-Cesena (excluding the provincial area situated to the North of the State road n.9 — Via Emilia), Parma, Piacenza, Rimini (excluding the provincial area situated to the North of the State road n.9 — Via Emilia), Lombardy, Veneto (except in the province of Rovigo the communes Rovigo, Polesella, Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine, Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo, Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo, Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po, Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara, Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d’Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province of Verona the communes Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago, Castagnaro, Ronco all’Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano, Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), Lithuania, Austria (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria, Vienna), Slovenia (except the Gorenjska and Maribor regions), Slovakia (except the communes of Blahová, Horné Mýto and Okoč (Dunajská Streda County), Hronovce and Hronské Kľačany (Levice County), Veľké Ripňany (Topoľčany County), Málinec (Poltár County), Hrhov (Rožňava County), Kazimír, Luhyňa, Malý Horeš, Svätuše and Zatín (Trebišov County))’.
In point 1 of heading (d), the word ‘Lithuania’ is deleted.
In point 3 of heading (d), the words ‘(until 31 March 2008)’ are inserted after the word ‘Malta’.
1.Member States shall adopt and publish, by 30 April 2006 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and the Directive.
They shall apply those provisions from 1 May 2006.
When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such a reference is to be made.
2.Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of domestic law which they adopt in the field governed by this Directive.
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 24 March 2006.
For the Commission
Markos Kyprianou
Member of the Commission