The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020

Interpretation E+W

7.  In this Part—

“field” (“cae”) means an area which has been demarcated as a field for the purposes of [F1 this Part];

“host plants” (“planhigion cynhaliol”) means plants with roots of Capsicum spp., Solanum lycopersicum L. or Solanum melongena L.;

“infested field” (“cae a heigiwyd”) means a field which is recorded as infested pursuant to paragraph 9(1);

“notice” (“hysbysiad”) means a notice under regulation 15(1);

“Potato cyst nematode” (“Llyngyr tatws”) means any cyst-forming nematode of the species Globodera pallida (Stone) Behrens or Globodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber) Behrens that infests and multiplies on potatoes, including any strain or pathotype of any such nematode;

[F2 “specified measures” (“mesurau penodedig”) means—

(a)

for the purposes of paragraph 9(2), the official re-sampling of the field and official testing of the samples, carried out at least three years after appropriate officially approved control measures have been taken in the field or, in any other case, at least five years after the year in which the Potato cyst nematodes were found or potatoes were last grown in the field;

(b)

for the purposes of paragraphs 11(3) and 15—

(i)

the disinfestation of the bulbs or plants by appropriate methods that ensure that there is no identifiable risk of Potato cyst nematodes spreading;

(ii)

the removal of soil from the bulbs or plants by washing or brushing them until they are practically free of soil, so as to ensure that there is no identifiable risk of Potato cyst nematodes spreading;]

“susceptible bulbs” (“bylbiau sy'n dueddol o gael plâu neu glefydau”) means bulbs, tubers or rhizomes, grown in soil and intended for planting, of Allium ascalonicum L., Allium cepa L., Dahlia spp., Gladiolus Tourn. Ex L., Hyacinthus spp., Iris spp., Lilium spp., Narcissus L. or Tulipa L., other than those for which there is evidence by their packaging or by other means that they are intended for sale to final consumers not involved in professional plant or cut flower production;

“susceptible material” (“deunydd sy'n dueddol o gael plâu neu glefydau”) means host plants, susceptible bulbs or susceptible plants;

“susceptible plants” (“planhigion sy'n dueddol o gael plâu neu glefydau”) means plants with roots of Allium porrum L., Asparagus officinalis L., Beta vulgaris L., Brassica spp. or Fragaria L.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 2 para. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 17(2)(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 2 para. 7 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1628), regs. 1(2)(b), 17(2)(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 2 para. 7 in force at 27.3.2020, see reg. 1