No L 305/12 Official Journal of the European Communities 21. 10. 92 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 92/76/EEC of 6 October 1992 recognizing protected zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the Community THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 77/93/EEC of 21 December 1976 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (), as last amended by Commission Directive 92/10/EEC (3, and in particular the first subpa- ragraph of Article 2 (1) (h) thereof, Having regard to the requests made by Denmark, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom, Whereas under the provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC, ‘protected zones’ exposed to particular plant health risks may be defined and therefore may be accorded special protection under conditions compatible with the internal market ; Whereas, moreover, Member States may request the recognition as protected zone, in particular, of a zone in which one or more harmful organisms referred to in the said Directive, which are established in one or more parts of the Community, are not endemic or established, despite conditions being favourable for them to establish themselves there ; Whereas certain Member States have requested that certain zones be recognized as protected zones ; No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20. No L 70, 17. 3. 1992, p. 27. Whereas the abovementioned requests should be based on the grounds that the results of appropriate surveys, monitored by Commission experts, confirm that one or more of the harmful organisms, in respect of which the zone is to be recognized as a protected zone, are not endemic or established there ; Whereas, however, the details of such surveys are not yet fully established at Community level ; Whereas the recognition should be provisional only and based on the available information submitted by the Member States concerned ; Whereas an extension of the recognition beyond 1994 will be decided only on the basis of the results of the required surveys as monitored by Commission experts; Whereas a provision should be foreseen for modifying later, if necessary, the list of protected zones; Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant health, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 The zones in the Community listed in the Annex are hereby recognized for a period expiring on 31 December 1994 as ‘protected zones’ referred to in the first subpara- graph of Article 2 (1) (h) of Directive 77/93/EEC, in respect of the harmful organism(s) listed against their names in the Annex.