PERMANENT LIST OF EU REGULATED PESTS

Directive 2000/29/EC  listed the EU quarantine pests to be targeted by specific control measures. They were listed in annexes I and II (Part A, Section I and II). Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2017/1279 and Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/523 amended Directive 2000/29/EC.

Directive 2000/29/EC was repealed on 14 December 2019 and was replaced by Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 ("Plant Health Law") of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning protective measures against pests of plants.

According to Article 5(2) of the Plant Health Law, the Commission establishes the ‘list of Union quarantine pests’, which is included in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019. The list of Union quarantine pests is available in Annex II of this Regulation. In addition, Annex IV contains the list of Union regulated non-quarantine pests (‘RNQPs’). Annexes of the Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 are now amended by the

- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2285 of 14 December 2021 (Annexes I, II, IV to VIII and X to XIV are amended);

- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2004 of 23 July 2024 (Neoceratitis asiatica, N. cyanescens and Neotephritis finalis are added to the list of quatantine Tephritidae; Draeculacephala minerva (Hemiptera : Cicadellidae) is removed from Annex II, the whole genus Draeculacephala is regulated; Ripersiella hibisci (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) is deleted from Annex II; cut flowers of Rosa L. is added as a possible introduction pathway of Thaumatotibia leucotreta).

PRIORITY QUARANTINE ORGANISMS

Article 6(2) of the Plant Health Law empowers the Commission to establish a list of the priority pests. Published in the Official Journal on 11 October 2019, the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1702 lists 20 quarantine pests as priority pests, 16 of which are insects and reported here below: 

- Agrilus anxius Gory

- Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire

- Anastrepha ludens (Loew)

- Anoplophora chinensis (Thomson)

- Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky)

- Anthonomus eugenii Cano

- Aromia bungii (Faldermann)

- Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc.)

- Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)

- Bactrocera zonata (Saunders)

- Conotrachelus nenuphar (Herbst)

- Dendrolimus sibiricus Tschetverikov

- Popillia japonica Newman

- Rhagoletis pomonella Walsh

- Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith)

- Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Meyrick)

TEMPORARY MEASURES

- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1941 of 13 October 2022 prohibit the introduction, movement, holding, multiplication or release of Chloridea virescens, Leucinodes orbonalis, Leucinodes pseudorbonalis, Resseliella citrifrugis and Spodoptera ornithogalli, which are not included in the annexes of Regulation (EU) 2021/2285, but are considered to present a high phytosanitary risk for the Union territory. This regulation has been amended by

- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1957 of 17 July 2024, wich removes Leucinodes orbonalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) from the lists the pests which are temporarily prohibited to be introduced into, moved within, or held, multiplied or released in the Union territory, and adds Homona magnanima (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae).