This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2023.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4 .

( 2 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 of 18 December 2018 establishing a provisional list of high risk plants, plant products or other objects, within the meaning of Article 42 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 and a list of plants for which phytosanitary certificates are not required for introduction into the Union, within the meaning of Article 73 of that Regulation ( OJ L 323, 19.12.2018, p. 10 ).

( 3 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1213 of 21 August 2020 concerning the phytosanitary measures for the introduction into the Union of certain plants, plant products and other objects which have been removed from the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 ( OJ L 275, 24.8.2020, p. 5 ).

( 4 ) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 of 28 November 2019 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants, and repealing Commission Regulation (EC) No 690/2008 and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 ( OJ L 319, 10.12.2019, p. 1 ).

( 5 ) In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this act, references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland.

( 6 ) EFSA PLH Panel (EFSA Panel on Plant Health), 2023. Scientific Opinion on the commodity risk assessment of Acer campestre plants from the UK. EFSA Journal 2023;21(7):8071, 291 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8071

( 7 ) EFSA PLH Panel (EFSA Panel on Plant Health), 2023. Scientific Opinion on the commodity risk assessment of Acer palmatum plants from the UK. EFSA Journal 2023;21(7):8075, 228 pp. https://doi. org/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8075

( 8 ) EFSA PLH Panel (EFSA Panel on Plant Health), 2023. Scientific Opinion on the commodity risk assessment of Acer platanoides plants from the UK. EFSA Journal 2023;21(7):8073, 268 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8073

( 9 ) EFSA PLH Panel (EFSA Panel on Plant Health), 2023. Scientific Opinion on the commodity risk assessment of Acer psuedoplatanus plants from the UK. EFSA Journal 2023;21(7):8074, 271 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2023.8074

( 10 ) EPPO (2017) Pest risk analysis for Meloidogyne mali. EPPO, Paris. Available at http://www.eppo.int/QUARANTINE/Pest_Risk_Analysis/PRA_intro.htm and https://gd.eppo.int/taxon/MELGMA.

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2023/1535 of 24 July 2023 amending Implementing Regulations (EU) 2018/2019 and (EU) No 2020/1213 as regards certain plants for planting of ANNEX I ANNEX II