L 17446 Official Journal of the European Union 9.7.2010 DECISIONS COMMISSION DECISION of 7 July 2010 amending Decision 2008/840/EC as regards emergency measures to prevent the introduction into the Union of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) (notified under document C(2010) 4546) (2010/380/EU) 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 the fourth sentence of Article 16(3) thereof, Whereas: ¢ Commission Decision 2008/840/EC of 7 November 2008 on emergency measures to prevent the intro- duction into and the spread within the Community of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) (%) requires Member States to adopt measures to prevent the introduction and spread within the Union of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster). A mission carried out by the Commission in China from 9 to 20 February 2009 showed that the application of the emergency measures provided for by Decision 2008/840/EC was not fully satisfactory as regards the production and supervision of plants falling within the scope of that Decision, hereinafter ‘specified plants’. The Commission contacted China on 3 July 2009 explaining the conclusions drawn on the basis of that mission. On 29 September 2009, China presented a series of measures which would improve the control of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) as regards the production of specified plants destined for export to the Union. In L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1. L 300, 11.11.2008, p. 36. particular, China has conducted a procedure of regis- tration of the places of production for exports to the Union. It has restricted the number of places of production from which specified plants may be exported to the Union to places of production that had been registered by its national plant protection organi- sation as in compliance with point (1)(b) of Section I(B) of Annex I to Decision 2008/840/EC, as amended. This register was notified to the Commission on the same day. China further announced the adoption of measures in case Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) would be found at one of the registered places of production, including the removal of the place of production concerned from the register under certain circumstances. The Commission communicated the information received from China to the Member States. On 23 December 2009, the Commission informed China of its expectations that findings of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) must lead to an automatic removal of the place of production concerned from the register. No more findings concerning specified plants imported from China were reported until end of February 2010. However, the Netherlands reported on 1 and 3 March 2010 findings of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster) on specified plants originating from two places of production included in the register. On 25 March 2010, China communicated to the Commission that it has undertaken to keep the register that it communicated to the Commission on 29 September 2009 up-to-date by, inter alia, promptly removing from the register the two mentioned places of production and to make the updated versions of the register available to the Commission. It is necessary to adapt the measures provided for by Decision 2008/840/EC as regards imports of specified plants from China to take into account these devel- opments.