ORGANISATION EUROPEENNE ET MEDITERRANEENNE POUR LA PROTECTION DES PLANTES
EUROPEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN PLANT PROTECTION ORGANIZATION
EPPO SUMMARIES OF
PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS
CROATIA
1999-06
OEPP/EPPO
1 rue le Nôtre
75016 PARIS
EPPO SUMMARY OF THE PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS
OF CROATIA
This summary of the phytosanitary regulations of Croatia forms part of the EPPO publication Summaries of Phytosanitary Regulations. It has been prepared by the EPPO Secretariat from the original text of the Croatian regulations. Its content is identical to that of EPPO's computer database PRS. PRS is provided with a user-friendly interface for retrieval of this information in relation to consignments of specific commodities exported to Croatia from any country. Users are strongly advised to consult PRS in the first instance, and to refer to this printed summary only for an overall view. The original text of the Croatian regulations is also supplied with PRS, as a computer text file.
This summary has been submitted to the NPPO of Croatia for review, and is believed to contain complete and up-to-date information. Nevertheless, it does not constitute a legally approved substitute for the original text of the Croatian regulations. If in doubt, users should refer to the original text.
The summary is presented in the following sequence:
General requirements
Commodity requirements for:
Plants
Bulbs and tubers
Seeds
Cut flowers and branches
Fruits and vegetables
Squared wood
Non-squared wood
Bark
Soil/growing medium
Stored products
Other
The summary uses the terminology of the Glossary of Phytosanitary Terms (ISPM No. 5), which is supplied with PRS. It also uses a number of 'standard phrases', enclosed in inverted commas, whose full definition is given in PRS and in the introduction to the complete set of Summaries.
1999-06
CROATIA GENERAL
PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS OF CROATIA
General Requirements
1999-06 HR-1
CROATIA GENERAL
NPPO
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Ul. grada Vukovara 78
10000 ZAGREB (Croatia)
Tel: +385 1 6106625
Fax: +385 1 6109202
E-mail:
Contact: Ms V. Ljubetic
^LEGISLATION
Law on Plant Protection (Official Gazette no 10/94 and 19/94).
List of quarantine pests (Official Gazette no 87/94).
Regulation on phytosanitary inspection of plants and control of plant protection products in national cross-boundary transportation (Official Gazette no 12/95 and 96/95).
Decree on measures for preventing the introduction of western corn rootworm - Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Official Gazette no 17/95).
Decree on measures undertaken for preventing the spread of western corn rootworm - Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Official Gazette no 96/95).
Decree on additional phytosanitary conditions for the importation of seed potatoes into the Republic of Croatia (Official Gazette no 6/96).
Decree on the undertaking of measures for prevention of spread and eradication of the fireblight bacterium Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al. (Official Gazette no 88/96).
Decree on proclamation of areas infested by the quarantine pest Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al. (Official Gazette no 88/96).
^PROHIBITED IMPORTS
Plants, plant products and other articles infested by quarantine pests of Lists 1 and 2 (except Quadraspidiotus perniciosus on fruits) and any of these pests in an isolated state (see Lists of Quarantine Pests).
Plants, plant products and other articles infested by economically important pests (List B) in quantities exceeding those determined by the Standards for the establishment of phytosanitary condition of crops and facilities, seeds and propagating material (see Lists of Quarantine Pests).
Certain plants or plant products (see Commodity requirements).
^POINTS OF ENTRY
The import of all consignments of plants, plant products and other regulated articles as well as their export is permitted only through specified border control checkpoints.
^TRANSIT
No special conditions apply to plants and plant products which are in transit through Croatia, provided they are in closed containers or packed in such a way that no risk of spread of pests exists. Otherwise, the same requirements as for import apply.
^REGULATED ARTICLES
Regulated articles include the following:
- living plants, seeds, propagating material, cultures of edible mushrooms, plants in tissue culture;
- harvested plants and seeds not intended for planting, fresh or dried, whole or mechanically treated, fruits and vegetables;
- parts of plants, fresh or dried (cut flowers, wreaths, twigs, branches and trees with or without foliage, medical and seasoning herbs, aromatics, tobacco, reeds and similar plants, herbaria, etc.);
- flour and other mill industry products, some food industry products;
- wood;
- cattle feed of plant origin not so far included (hay, straw, maize stocks, hulls, oil cakes, copra, dehydrated fodder plants) birdseed, etc.;
- textile plant fibres and their wastes.
- packaging material of plant origin and dunnage;
- soil (including also remnants of soil on plants and plant parts, soil samples), peat, manure, compost and other substrates for plant growth.
^ Exceptions
The above-mentioned regulated articles are not subject to obligatory phytosanitary inspection if a possibility of dissemination of plant pests has been eliminated by chemical, thermal, mechanical or other processing methods.
^IMPORT PERMITS
Consignments of planting material of perennial plants for which monitoring of the phytosanitary situation of the country of origin or post-entry monitoring of the phytosanitary situation is obligatory must be imported on the basis of the previous approval of the NPPO (Import permit - IP). A written request for the IP must be forwarded by the importer to the NPPO with all data required on the consignment.
If a consignment of planting material of perennial plants for which the IP is obligatory arrives at the point of entry without an IP, the phytosanitary inspector at the border can decide on the interception of such consignment without inspection. In this case the consignment must be returned to the sender or destroyed.
^CERTIFICATES
The phytosanitary certificate (PC) is in general required for all regulated articles (see Exceptions). It must be issued by the NPPO of the exporting country in conformity with the IPPC, not more than 14 days before crossing the border of the issuing country. The PC must indicate the scientific names of plants and the name of the cultivar or hybrid for seeds and propagating material and be written either in English, French, German or Russian.
If the PC is issued in an exporting country which has not ratified the IPPC, the PC issued under the regulations of that country is accepted if its contents meet the requirements provided by the phytosanitary regulations of Croatia.
The reexportation certificate (RC) is issued by the last reexporting country. The RC is required for consignments exported by a country which is not a country of origin and must be accompanied by the original PC of the country of origin or its true certified copy.
In some cases specified in the Commodity requirements concerned, the PC should carry an additional declaration (AD). The AD for re-exported consignments of plants must be printed either on the original, or the certified true copy of the PC of the country of origin.
If a consignment of regulated articles arrives at the point of entry without a PC, the phytosanitary inspector at the border can decide on the interception of such consignment without inspection. In this case the consignment must be returned to the sender or destroyed.
^ Exceptions
No PC is required for:
- dried fruit and vegetables, dried and fresh mushrooms, spices, tea, dried medicinal herbs and herbaria, green coffee beans;
- packaging of plant origin which has not been previously used;
- peat in original packaging;
- food industry products of plant origin (malt, cereals flakes, muesli, rice, flour) in their original packaging, prepared for retail, up to 5 kg;
- consignments of Croatian origin which have not been unloaded and are returning to the Republic of Croatia;
- fruits and vegetables for consumption up to 5 kg per species of plant (commodity);
- bunches of cut flowers and wreaths when not saleable;
- cultures of edible mushrooms;
- plants in tissue culture imported by legal entities engaging in plant breeding, introduction of new species, cultivars, lines or hybrids, or in plant protection, or in preparation of plant collections, or in maintenance of gene banks, or in exchanging samples of plants;
- aquarium plants;
- cactus seeds and cactuses without substrate;
- sawn wood (carpentry timber, parquet, veneer, panelling, planks and beams etc.) which has not been used before and is completely free from bark;
- small commercial samples of plants (except planting material) or plant products;
- small original packages of vegetable or flower seeds up to 100 g, or bulbs and tubers up to 3 kg, with declaration, originating in EU countries.
Samples of plants imported by legal entities engaged in selection and introduction of new species, lines or hybrids, or in plant protection, or in preparation of plant collections, or in maintenance of gene banks require an IP but no PC.
If a large quantity of plants for industrial processing is imported from neighbouring countries, from one place, and if the phytosanitary inspector at the border of the Republic of Croatia has carried out the inspection in the field or storage in the country of origin, all consignments to be imported in one day may exceptionally be accompanied by one PC, if the phytosanitary inspector at the border assesses that there is no danger of introduction of quarantine pests.
The PC shall not be required in those cases in which it is not foreseen by any bilateral agreement on cross-boundary transportation.
^LISTS OF QUARANTINE PESTS
^ List 1. Quarantine pests not present on the territory of the Republic of Croatia
^ Animals
Acleris gloverana
Acleris variana
Aleurocanthus woglumi
Amauromyza maculosa
Anastrepha spp. (non-European)
Anthonomus grandis
Anthonomus signatus
Aphelenchoides besseyi
Bactrocera spp. (non-European)
Bemisia tabaci
Blitopertha orientalis
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus
Carposina niponensis
Ceratitis spp. (non-European)
Conotrachelus nenuphar
Cydia prunivora
Dacus ciliatus
Diabrotica spp.
Diaphorina citri
Epitrix cucumeris
Epitrix tuberis
Epochra canadensis
Euphranta japonica
Globodera pallida
Globodera rostochiensis
Heterodera glycines
Liriomyza huidobrensis
Liriomyza sativae
Listronotus bonariensis
Lopholeucaspis japonica
Monochamus alternatus
Monochamus carolinensis
Nacobbus aberrans
Parabemisia myricae
Pissodes spp. (non-European)
Popillia japonica
Premnotrypes spp. (Andean)
Pseudopityophthorus minutissimus
Pseudopityophthorus pruinosus
Radopholus citrophilus
Radopholus similis
Rhagoletis spp. (non-European)
Scaphoideus luteolus
Scolytidae (non-European)
Spodoptera littoralis
Spodoptera litura
Thrips palmi
Toxoptera citricida
Trioza erytreae
Trogoderma granarium
Unaspis yanonensis
Xiphinema americanum (sensu stricto)
^ Bacteria
Apricot chlorotic leafroll phytoplasma
Burkholderia caryophylli
Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. insidiosus
Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus
Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv. flaccumfaciens
Elm phloem necrosis phytoplasma
Erwinia amylovora
Erwinia chrysanthemi
Grapevine flavescence dorée phytoplasma
Liberobacter africanum
Liberobacter asiaticum
Palm lethal yellowing phytoplasma
Pantoea stewartii pv. stewartii
Peach rosette phytoplasma
Peach X disease phytoplasma
Peach yellows phytoplasma
Potato purple-top wilt phytoplasma
Pseudomonas syringae pv. persicae
Ralstonia solanacearum
Strawberry witches' broom phytoplasma
Xanthomonas arboricola pv. corylina
Xanthomonas arboricola pv. pruni
Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri
Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. dieffenbachiae
Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. phaseoli
Xanthomonas fragariae
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
Xanthomonas populi
Xanthomonas vesicatoria
Xylella fastidiosa
Xylophilus ampelinus
^ Fungi
Apiosporina morbosa
Atropellis spp.
Botryosphaeria berengeriana f. sp. piricola
Botryosphaeria laricina
Ceratocystis fagacearum
Ceratocystis fimbriata f. sp. platani
Chrysomyxa arctostaphyli
Cochliobolus heterostrophus
Cronartium spp. (non-European)
Didymella ligulicola
Gymnosporangium spp. (non-European)
Hamaspora longissima
Melampsora farlowii
Melampsora medusae
Monilinia fructicola
Mycosphaerella gibsonii
Mycosphaerella laricis-leptolepidis
Mycosphaerella populorum
Ophiostoma piceae
Ophiostoma wageneri
Phellinus weirii
Phialophora gregata
Phoma andigena
Phyllosticta solitaria
Phymatotrichopsis omnivora
Phytophthora fragariae
Phytophthora sojae
Puccinia pittieriana
Septoria lycopersici var. malagutii
Stenocarpella macrospora
Stenocarpella maydis
Synchytrium endobioticum
Thecaphora solani
Tilletia indica
Urocystis cepulae
Venturia nashicola
^ Viruses and virus-like organisms
Apple mosaic ilarvirus in Rubus
Barley stripe mosaic hordeivirus
Beet leaf curl rhabdovirus
Black raspberry latent ilarvirus
Cherry leaf roll nepovirus in Rubus
Cherry little cherry virus
Cherry necrotic rusty mottle disease
Cherry rasp leaf nepovirus
Chrysanthemum stunt viroid
Peach American mosaic closterovirus
Plum American line pattern ilarvirus
Potato spindle tuber viroid
Potato viruses (non-European)
Raspberry leaf curl luteovirus
Raspberry ringspot nepovirus
Strawberry crinkle rhabdovirus
Strawberry latent C rhabdovirus
Strawberry mild yellow edge luteovirus
Strawberry veinbanding caulimovirus
Tomato black ring nepovirus
^ Parasitic plants
Arceuthobium spp. (non-European)
^ List 2. Quarantine pests present but not widely distributed on the territory of the Republic of Croatia
^ Animals
Cacoecimorpha pronubana
Ceratitis capitata
Epichoristodes acerbella
Ips amitinus
Quadraspidiotus perniciosus
^ Bacteria
Apple proliferation phytoplasma
Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis
Pear decline phytoplasma
Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi
^ Fungi
Mycosphaerella dearnessii
Mycosphaerella linicola
Phaeoisariopsis griseola
Phialophora cinerescens
Plasmopara halstedii
Tilletia controversa
^ Viruses and virus-like organisms
Beet necrotic yellow vein furovirus
Citrus tristeza closterovirus
Plum pox potyvirus
Tomato ringspot nepovirus
Tomato spotted wilt tospovirus
1999-06 HR-3
CROATIA PLANTS
PHYTOSANITARY REGULATIONS OF CROATIA
Commodity Requirements for Plants
Note that the term "Plants" used under this heading must be understood as an abbreviation for "Plants for planting, except seeds, bulbs and tubers".
All plants / PC and, if appropriate, RCGrowing-season inspection for quarantine pests (AD)
Fruit trees / 'Origin from certification scheme' for virus and virus-like organisms (AD)
Plants accompanied by soil / Soil free from Synchytrium endobioticum and nematode quarantine pests (AD)
Perennial plants / IP
Abies
Plants originating in Belgium, France, Spain or non-European countries / ProhibitedAmelanchier
All plants / 'Place of production freedom' (last 2 seasons) for Erwinia amylovora (AD)'Radius freedom' (no outbreak within 10 km of place of production) for Erwinia amylovora (AD)
Plants originating in Armenia, Belgium, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, UK, USA or Yugoslavia
A. imported between 16 April and 31 October / Prohibited
B. imported between 1 November and 15 April / 'Area freedom' for Erwinia amylovora
Plants originating in New Zealand
A. imported between 16 October and 30 April / Prohibited
B. imported between 1 May and 15 October / 'Area freedom' for Erwinia amylovora
Capsicum
Plants originating in Austria, Belgium, France, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain or UK / Origin from healthy plants (AD)Place of production free from Liriomyza huidobrensis (AD)
Plants free (monthly during last 3 months) from Liriomyza huidobrensis (AD)
Plants originating in North America, Central America or South America / Origin from healthy plants (AD)
Place of production free from Liriomyza huidobrensis, Amauromyza maculosa and Liriomyza sativae (AD)
Plants free (monthly during last 3 months from Liriomyza huidobrensis, Amauromyza maculosa and Liriomyza sativae (AD)