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, 14 February 2025.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

( 1 ) OJ L 317, 23.11.2016, p. 4 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/2031/2019-12-14 .

( 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 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2018/2019/oj ).

( 3 ) 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 Windsor Framework (See Joint Declaration No 1/2023 of the Union and the United Kingdom in the Joint Committee established by 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 ( OJ L 102, 17.4.2023, p. 87 ) in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Framework, for the purposes of this Regulation, references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland.

( 4 ) EFSA PLH Panel (EFSA Panel on Plant Health), 2024. Commodity risk assessment of Betula pendula and Betula pubescens plants from the UK. EFSA Journal , 22(11), e9051. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2024.9051 .

( 5 ) 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 , ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2019/2072/oj ).

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/312 of 14 February 2025 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as regards certain plants for planting of ANNEX