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

It shall apply from 14 July 2022.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 June 2022.

For the Commission

The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN

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

( 2 ) 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 ).

( 3 ) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1702 of 1 August 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the list of priority pests ( OJ L 260, 11.10.2019, p. 8 ).

( 4 ) EPPO (2013) Pest risk analysis for Thaumatotibia leucotreta . EPPO, Paris. https://pra.eppo.int/pra/9305d7ed-2788-46dc-882d-b4641fa24fff

( 5 ) Scientific Opinion on the commodity risk assessment of Citrus L. fruits from Israel for Thaumatotibia leucotreta under a systems approach. EFSA Journal 2021;19(3):6427, 36 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6427

( 6 ) Scientific Opinion on the commodity risk assessment of Citrus L. fruits from South Africa for Thaumatotibia leucotreta under a systems approach. EFSA Journal ;19(8):6799, 63 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6799

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/959 of 16 June 2022 amending Annex VII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 as regards requirements for the introduction into the Union of certain fruits of ANNEX