24.6.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 18323 DIRECTIVES COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE 2014/78/EU of 17 June 2014 amending Annexes L, II, III, IV and V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Directive 2000/29/EC of 8 May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (), and in particular points (c) and (d) of the second paragraph of Article 14 thereof, After consulting the Member States concerned, Whereas: (1)  In view of increased international trade and in order to protect plants, plant products and other objects, it is tech- nically justified, consistent with the pest risk involved, to add the harmful organisms Agrilus anxius Gory and Anthonomus eugenii Cano to Section I of Part A of Annex I to Directive 2000/29/EC. (2)  In order to protect the production and the trade of plants, plant products and other objects, it is technically justi- fied, consistent with the pest risk involved, to delete the harmful organisms Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, Citrus greening bacterium and Diaphorina citri Kuway from Section I of Part A of Annex II of Directive 2000/29/EC and to add them to Section I of Part A of Annex I to Directive 2000/29/EC. (3)  The presence of the harmful organisms Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner and Bithrer) Nickle et al. and Trioza erytreae Del Guercio poses an unacceptable risk to the production and the trade of plants, plant products and other objects. Therefore, it is technically justified, consistent with the pest risk involved, to move those harmful organisms, from Annex II to Directive 2000/29/EC to Annex I thereto. Information submitted by Portugal shows that those harmful organisms are now known to occur within the Union. Consequently, they should be added to Section II of Part A of Annex I to Directive 2000/29/EC. (4) It is technically justified, consistent with the pest risk involved to delete the harmful organism Monilinia fructicola (Winter) Honey from Section I of Part A of Annex I and Ciborinia camelliae Kohn from Section I of Part A of Annex II to Directive 2000/29/EC since those harmful organisms have spread and are established within a large part of the Union, and no measures are feasible to eradicate them or contain their further spread. (5) It is technically justified, consistent with the pest risk involved to delete the organism Citrus vein enation woody gall from Section II of Part A of Annex II to Directive 2000/29/EC given its observed low impact. (6)  Certain plants, plant products and other objects are likely to host the following harmful organisms Agrilus anxius Gory, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire, Amauromyza maculosa (Malloch), Anthonomus eugenii Cano, Bemisia tabaci Genn. (non-European populations), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner and Bithrer) Nickle et al, Citrus greening bacterium, Diaphorina citri Kuway, Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kithn) Filipjev, Helicoverpa armigera (Hiibner), Liriomyza huido- brensis (Blanchard), Liriomyza sativae(Blanchard), Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess), Spodoptera eridania (Cramer), Spodoptera frugiperda Smith, Spodoptera litura (Fabricius), Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.) and Trioza erytreae Del Guercio which are listed or are to be listed in Part A of Annexes I or II to Directive 2000/29/EC. Developments in scientific and technical knowledge, show that the special requirements set out in Part A of Annex IV to Directive 2000/29/EC are inadequate to reduce to an acceptable level, the phytosanitary risk caused by the introduction of those plants, plant products and other objects into the Union, and their movement within the Union. Therefore it is necessary () OJL169,10.7.2000,p. 1.