1. These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 30 April 2024.
2.—(1) The Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)(2) after the definition of “Plant Health Regulation” insert—
““Relevant ports” means any of the following seaports—
Ayr;
Cairnryan;
Greenock.”.
(3) In regulation 3 (application of the import inspection fee)(3), for paragraph 2(a) substitute—
“(a)consists of plants, plant products and other objects of a description specified in the second column of Schedule 1 and that are listed in Part A of Annex 11 or in Annex 12 to the Phytosanitary Conditions Regulation, as amended from time to time; and”.
(4) In regulation 4 (fees)(4)—
(a)for paragraph (6) substitute—
“(6) Subject to paragraph (8), the fee specified for a documentary check for a consignment or such part of a consignment consisting of plants, plant products or other objects is—
(a)in the case of a consignment originating in an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland and containing only plants or plant products falling within column 1 of table 3 of schedule 2A, the fee specified for that check in the second column of that table, or
(b)in any other case, £6.00.”.
(b)for paragraph (8) substitute—
“(8) No fee is payable under paragraphs (1), (6) and (7) in respect of—
(a)goods in a consignment originating in an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland listed in the table in schedule 2A to the Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(5) imported before 30th October 2024; or
(b)a consignment originating in an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland consisting solely of plants, plant products and other objects referred to in the lists established pursuant to Article 72(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031(6), imported into Scotland through a relevant port.”.
(c)after paragraph (8) insert—
“(9) Paragraph (8) does not apply where the consignment originated in Liechtenstein and includes any goods falling within the table in schedule 2A and also within schedule 1 to the Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022(7).”.
(5) For Regulation 5 (Additional fees in respect of Potatoes Originating in Egypt)(8), substitute—
5.—(1) Where paragraph (2) applies, an importer must pay to the Scottish Ministers the fee specified in the fourth column of schedule 3, in addition to any fee payable in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.
(2) This paragraph applies where potatoes originating in Egypt or Lebanon are landed in Scotland and a sample of those potatoes is taken in order to ascertain whether, for the purposes of point 26 of Annex 7 of the Phytosanitary Conditions Regulation, those potatoes are infected with Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.”.
(6) For schedule 1 (import inspection fees for physical and identity checks), substitute the schedule in schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(7) Omit schedule 2 (list of plants and plant products originating in an EU member state, Liechtenstein or Switzerland not subject to fees for documentary, identity and physical checks).
(8) For schedule 2A (import inspection fee for documentary checks), substitute the schedule in schedule 2 to these Regulations.
(9) In schedule 3 (additional fees), in column 2 of the table after “Egypt” insert “and Lebanon”.
LORNA SLATER
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
23rd April 2024