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ELEMENTS TO IDENTIFY PLANTS OR PLANT PRODUCTS WHICH ARE LIKELY TO POSE NEWLY IDENTIFIED PEST RISKS OR OTHER SUSPECTED PHYTOSANITARY RISKS FOR THE UNION TERRITORY, AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 49 Plants or plant products from third countries shall be considered likely to pose pest risks for the Union territory, as referred to in Article 49(1), where those plants or plant products fulfil at least three of the following conditions, including at least one of the conditions provided in point (1)(a), (b) and (c):

(1) Characteristics of the plants or plant products:

(a) they belong to, or are produced from, a plant genus or family known to commonly host pests regulated as quarantine pests in the Union territory or in third countries;

(b) they belong to, or are produced from, a plant genus or family known to host commonly hosted pests known to have major impact on plant species grown in the Union territory which have major economic, social or environmental importance to the Union territory;

(c) they belong to, or are produced from, a plant genus or family known to commonly harbour pests without signs and symptoms of those pests, or with a latent period for the expression of those signs or symptoms of at least three months, implying that the presence of pests on those plants or plant products is likely to be missed during official controls at introduction into the Union territory, without recourse to sampling and testing or submission to quarantine procedures;

(d) they are grown outdoors or grown from plants grown outdoors in the third countries of origin;

(e) they are not shipped in closed containers or packaging, or when shipped in such a way, the shipments because of their size cannot be opened in closed premises for purposes of official controls at introduction into the Union territory.

(2) Origin of the plants or plant products:

(a) they originate from, or are moved from, a third country which is the source of repetitive notifications of interception of quarantine pests not listed pursuant to Article 5(2);

(b) they originate from, or are moved from, a third country which is not a contracting party to the IPPC.