SCHEDULE 1

Articles 4(a) and 10(1)

Susceptible Material

Requirements to be met in respect of the issuing of any phytosanitary certificate accompanying susceptible material (“the certificate”)

  • Acer macrophyllum

  • Pursh.

  • Aesculus californica

  • Nutt.

  • Aesculus hippocastanum L.

  • Arbutus menziesii

  • Pursch.

  • Arbutus unedo L.

  • Arctostaphylos spp.

  • Adans

  • Camellia spp.

  • Castanea sativa Mill.

  • Fagus sylvatica L.

  • Hamamelis virginiana L.

  • Heteromeles arbutifolia (Lindley)

  • M. Roemer

  • Kalmia latifolia L.

  • Leucothoe fontanesiana (Steudel)

  • SleumerLithocarpus densiflorus (H & A)

  • Lonicera hispidula. (Dougl.)

  • Pieris spp

  • Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) Franco

  • Quercus spp.L.Rhamnus californica (Esch)

  • Rhododendron spp. L., other than

  • Rhododendron simsii

  • Planch.

  • Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.

  • vulgaris L.

  • Taxus spp.

  • Trientalislatifolia (Hook)

  • Umbellularia californica (Pursch.)

  • Vaccinium vitis-idaea

  • Britt.

  • Vaccinium ovatum

  • (Hook & Arn)

  • Nutt.Viburnumspp. L..

Either—

(a)

The certificate must 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”) as being free from non- European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum in which case the name of the area from where the material originates must be specified under “place of origin”;

or

(a)

the certificate must only be issued 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 any susceptible tree a t 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 must 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”.