On the basis of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No 575 of 21 August 2008 "Procedure for Combating and Limiting the Spread of Fire blight", the State Plant Protection Service takes decisions on the application of phytosanitary measures. The decisions designate the site where the pest is found as the outbreak and the area within a radius of 3 km around the outbreak as the buffer zone.
The Decisions establish that the host plants of the bacterial blight (apple (Malus), pear (Pyrus), hawthorn (Crataegus), rowan (Sorbus), cotoneaster, quince (Cydonia, Chaenomeles), corinth (Amelanchier), Eriobotrya and Pyracantha during the flowering period and for at least two weeks after the end of flowering, it is prohibited to bring beehives into the fire blight buffer zone and to move beehives out of the fire blight buffer zone.