The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Interpretation: EU Decisions N.I.

3.—(1) In these Regulations—

“Commission Decision 98/109/EC” means Commission Decision 98/109/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Thrips palmi Karny as regards Thailand(1);

“Commission Decision 2002/757/EC” means Commission Decision 2002/757/EC on provisional emergency phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Phytophthora ramorum Werres, De Cock & Man in’t Veld sp. Nov.(2);

“Commission Decision 2004/200/EC” means Commission Decision 2004/200/EC on measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Pepino mosaic virus(3);

“Commission Implementing Decision 2011/787/EU” means Commission Implementing Decision 2011/787/EU authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al. as regards Egypt(4);

“Commission Implementing Decision 2012/138/EU” means Commission Implementing Decision 2012/138/EU as regards emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Anoplophora chinensis (Forster)(5);

“Commission Implementing Decision 2012/270/EU” means Commission Implementing Decision 2012/270/EU as regards emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Epitrix cucumeris (Harris), Epitrix papa sp. n., Epitrix subcrinita (Lec.) and Epitrix tuberis (Gentner)(6);

“Commission Implementing Decision 2012/535/EU” means Commission Implementing Decision 2012/535/EU on emergency measures to prevent the spread within the Union of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus (Steiner et Buhrer) Nickle et al. (the pine wood nematode)(7);

“Commission Implementing Decision 2012/697/EU” means Commission Implementing Decision 2012/697/EU as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of the genus Pomacea (Perry)(8);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.)(9);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/893” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/893 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulksy)(10);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715 setting out measures in respect of certain fruits originating in certain third countries to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of the harmful organism Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Van der Aa.(11);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/638” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/638 establishing emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of the harmful organism Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith)(12);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1503” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1503 establishing measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Aromia bungii (Faldermann)(13);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1739” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1739 establishing emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Rose Rosette virus(14);

“Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2032” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/2032 establishing measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg & O’Donnell (formerly Gibberella circinata) and repealing Decision 2007/433/EC(15);

“Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/885” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/885 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae Takikawa, Serizawa, Ichikawa, Tsuyumu & Goto(16);

“Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191 establishing measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV)(17).

(2) In these Regulations, references to the Phytosanitary Conditions Regulation and to the European Union instruments referred to in paragraph (1) are to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in operation at 23.12.2020, see reg. 1

(1)

O.J. No. L 27, 3.2.1998, p. 47.

(2)

O.J. No. L 252, 20.9.2002, p. 37, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2014/356/EU (O.J. No. L 175, 14.6.2014, p. 38).

(3)

O.J. No. L 64, 2.3.2004, p. 43.

(4)

O.J. No. L 319, 2.12.2011, p. 112.

(5)

O.J. No. L 64, 3.3.2012, p. 38, as amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2014/356/EU (O.J. No. L 175, 14.6.2014, p. 38.

(6)

O.J. No. 132, 23.5.2012, p. 18, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/5 (O.J. No. L 2, 5.1.2018, p. 11).

(7)

O.J. No. L 266, 2.10.2012, p. 42, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/618 (O.J. No. L 102, 23.4.2018, p. 17).

(8)

O.J. No. L 697, 10.11.2012, p. 14.

(9)

O.J. No. L 125, 21.5.2015, p. 36, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1511 (O.J. No. L 255, 11.10.2018, p. 16).

(10)

O.J. No. L 146, 11.6.2015, p. 16.

(11)

O.J. No. L 125, 13.5.2016, p. 16, as amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/85 (O.J. No. L 15, 20.1.2018, p. 11).

(12)

O.J. No. L 105, 25.4.2018, p. 31, as amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1598 (O.J. No. L 248, 27.9.2019, p. 86).

(13)

O.J. No. L 254, 10.10.2018, p. 9.

(14)

O.J. No. L 265, 18.10.2019, p. 12.

(15)

O.J. No. L 313, 4.12.2019, p. 94.

(16)

O.J. No. L 205, 29.6.2020, p. 9.

(17)

O.J. No. L 262, 12.8.2020, p. 6.