24/04/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Wednesday 24 April, the European Parliament approved (551 votes in favour, 24 against and 15 abstentions) the agreement reached in March with the Council of the EU on the revision of the plant health law, which provides for the creation of an EU plant health emergency team to help Member States or third countries bordering the EU, at their request, to take measures to prevent the appearance of Union quarantine pests and harmful organisms. EU countries will have to establish new multi-annual risk-based survey programmes, which guarantee the timely detection of dangerous harmful organisms every five to ten years. Importers into the EU will be required to declare, in a phytosanitary certificate, the measures taken to ensure compliance with quarantine rules on harmful organisms. Link to text: https://aeur.eu/f/bxp (LC)