The Potatoes Originating in Egypt (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 350 (W. 8)

PLANT HEALTH, WALES

The Potatoes Originating in Egypt (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000

Made

8 February 2000

Coming into force

9 February 2000

The National Assembly for Wales, being designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) makes the following Regulations:

Title, commencement and application

1.   These Regulations may be cited as the Potatoes Originating in Egypt (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000, shall apply to Wales and shall come into force on 9 February 2000.

Amendment of the Potatoes Originating in Egypt Regulations 1998

2.—(1)  The Potatoes Originating in Egypt Regulations 1998(3) shall be amended in their application to Wales in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation) -

(a) for the definition of “the Decision” there shall be substituted -

““the Decision” means Commission Decision 96/301/EC authorising member States temporarily to take additional measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt(4) as amended by Commission Decision 98/105/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt(5), Commission Decision 98/503/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt(6) and Commission Decision 99/842/EC authorising member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum as regards Egypt(7);”; and

(b) in the definition of “the Minister”, there shall be substituted “the National Assembly for Wales” for “the Secretary of State for Wales”.

3.   In regulation 3(2) (imports of potatoes originating in Egypt) and regulation 5A(1) (charges in respect of the sampling of imports of potatoes), for the words “Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith”, there shall be substituted “Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.”(8).

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(9)

Dafydd Elis Thomas

The Presiding Officer

8 February 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to Wales, implement Commission Decision 99/842/EC amending Decision 96/301/EC which authorises Member States temporarily to take emergency measures against the dissemination of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith as regards Egypt (OJ No. L326, 18.12.99, p.68) by amending the definition of “the Decision” in the Potatoes Originating in Egypt Regulations 1998 (“the 1998 Regulations”) (regulation 2(2)). Decision 99/842/EC makes minor modifications to the requirements applying to potatoes imported into Member States from Egypt.

These Regulations also:

(a) vest the functions of “the Minister” in the 1998 Regulations in the National Assembly for Wales, in so far as such functions are exercisable in relation to Wales (regulation 2(2)(b)); and

(b) substitute the references to “Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith” in the 1998 Regulations with the term “Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.” (regulation 2(3)).

(1)

S.I. 1999/2788

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1998/201, as amended by S.I. 1998/3167.

(4)

OJ No. L115, 9.5.96, p.47.

(5)

OJ No. L25, 31.1.98, p.101.

(6)

OJ No. L225, 12.8.98, p.34.

(7)

OJ No. L326, 18.12.99, p.68.

(8)

Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al. was formerly known as Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith.

(9)

1998 c. 38.