The Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1643 (W. 158)) (“the principal Order”) to implement—

(a) Commission Implementing Directive 2014/78/EU amending Annexes I, II, III, IV and V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (OJ No L 183, 24.6.2014, p. 23);

(b) Commission Implementing Directive 2014/83/EU amending Annexes I, II, III, IV and V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (OJ No L 186, 26.6.2014, p. 64); and

(c) Commission Implementing Decision 2014/422/EU setting out measures in respect of certain citrus fruit originating in South Africa to prevent the introduction into and spread within the Union of Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Van der Aa (OJ No L 196, 3.7.2014, p. 21).

Articles 8, 9, 10 (other than article 10(1)(g) and (h)), 11, 12 and 13 amend Schedules 1 to 7 to the principal Order so as to implement various amendments made by the Commission Implementing Directives 2014/78/EU and 2014/83/EU to technical annexes I to V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC (OJ No L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1).

Article 6 also amends article 21 of the principal Order to impose additional requirements on the movement of plants, other than seeds, of Quercus spp, other than Quercus suber, intended for planting, which are likely to host Thaumetopoea processionea L., The Oak Processionary Moth.

Articles 3(a) and 10(1)(g) and (h) amend article 2(1) of, and Part A of Schedule 4 to, the principal Order to implement Commission Implementing Decision 2014/422/EU.

In addition, the Order makes other minor amendments to the principal Order.

Article 3(a) provides for references to Commission Implementing Decision 2014/422/EU to be read as references to that Decision as amended from time to time.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.