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Where a plant, plant product or other object originating in or being dispatched from a third country poses a pest risk of an unacceptable level due to the likelihood that it hosts a Union quarantine pest, and that pest risk cannot be reduced to an acceptable level by applying one or more of the measures set out in points 2 and 3 of Section 1 of Annex II, the Commission shall amend the implementing act referred to in paragraph 2 accordingly to include in it that plant, plant product or other object and the third countries, groups of third countries or specific areas of third countries concerned. Where a plant, plant product or other object included in that implementing act does not pose a pest risk of an unacceptable level, or it poses such a risk but that risk can be reduced to an acceptable level by applying one or more of the measures set out in points 2 and 3 of Section 1 of Annex II, the Commission shall amend that implementing act accordingly. The acceptability of the level of that pest risk shall be assessed in accordance with the principles set out in Section 2 of Annex II, where appropriate with regard to one or more specific third countries. Those amendments shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 107(2). On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency to address a serious pest risk, the Commission shall adopt those amendments by immediately applicable implementing acts, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 107(3).

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.