The Plant Health (Wood and Bark) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2019

Schedule 8 (Swiss plant passports)

16.  In Schedule 8—

(a) omit part A;

(b) for paragraph B substitute—

“1.   Wood referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of the definition of “wood” in article 2(1), where it —

(a) has been obtained in whole or in part from one of the following order, genera or species, except wood packaging material of a description specified in the second column of item 8 in Part A of Schedule 4—

(i) Quercus L., including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in the USA, except wood in the form of casks, barrels, vats, tubs or other coopers’ products or parts thereof, including staves and where there is documented evidence that the wood has been processed or manufactured using a heat treatment to achieve a minimum temperature of 176ºC for 20 minutes;

(ii) Platanus L., including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in the USA or Armenia;

(iii) Populus L., including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in any country of the American continent;

(iv) Acer saccharum Marsh., including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in the USA or Canada;

(v) conifers (Coniferales), including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in any country outside Europe, Kazakhstan, Russia or Turkey;

(vi) Fraxinus L., Juglans ailantifolia Carr., Juglans mandshurica Maxim., Ulmus davidiana Planch. or Pterocarya rhoifolia Siebold & Zucc., including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in Canada, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Russia, Taiwan or the USA;

(vii) Betula L., including wood which has not kept its natural round surface, originating in Canada or the USA; and

(b) meets one of the descriptions specified in point 6(b) of Appendix 1 to Part B of Annex 4 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products(1);

2.   Isolated bark of—

(a) conifers (Coniferales), originating in any country outside Europe;

(b) Acer saccharum Marsh., Populus L. or Quercus L., other than Quercus suber L.;

(c) Fraxinus L., Juglans ailantifolia Carr., Juglans mandshurica Maxim., Ulmus davidiana Planch. or Pterocarya rhoifolia Siebold & Zucc., originating in Canada, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Russia, Taiwan or the USA;

(d) Betula L., originating in Canada or the USA.”.

(1)

OJ No L 114, 30.4.2002, p.132, as last amended by Decision No 1/2017 of the Joint Committee on Agriculture (OJ No L 171, 4.7.2017, p. 185).