The Plant Health (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015

Schedule 7 (prohibitions on the consignment of relevant material to another part of the European Community without a plant passport)

9.—(1) In Part A (relevant material which may only be consigned to another part of the European Community if accompanied by a plant passport) of Schedule 7(1)—

(a) in paragraph 1 omit “Castanea Mill.”;

(b) for paragraph 4 substitute—

“4.   Plants, other than fruit or seeds, of Fortunella Swingle, Poncirus Raf., Casimiroa La Llave, Clausena Burm. f., Vepris Comm., Zanthoxylum L. or Vitis L.”;

(c) in paragraph 7—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a), after “Argyranthemum spp.,” insert “Asparagus officinalis L.,” and after “Brassica spp.,” insert “Castanea Mill.,”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (d), for “Lycopersicon lycopersicum (L.) Karsten ex Farw.” substitute “Solanum lycopersicum L.”;

(iii) for sub-paragraph (e) substitute—

“(e) bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes of Camassia Lindl., Chionodoxa Boiss., Crocus flavus Weston “Golden Yellow”, Dahlia spp., Galanthus L., Galtonia candicans (Baker) Decne., miniature cultivars of the genus Gladiolus Tourn. ex L. (such as Gladiolus callianthus Marais, Gladiolus colvillei Sweet, Gladiolus nanus hort., Gladiolusramosus hort. and Gladiolus tubergenii hort.), Hyacinthus L., Iris L., Ismene Herbert, Lilium spp., Muscari Miller, Narcissus L., Ornithogalum L., Puschkinia Adams, Scilla L., Tigridia Juss. or Tulipa L., intended for planting.”.

(2) In Part B (relevant material which may only be consigned to a protected zone in another part of the European Community if accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for that protected zone) of Schedule 7(2)—

(a) for paragraph 2 substitute—

“2.   Plants, other than seeds, of Beta vulgaris L., Platanus L. and Populus L., intended for planting.”;

(b) in paragraph 3, after “Amelanchier Med.,”, insert “Castanea Mill.,”;

(c) in paragraph 8, after “Beta vulgaris L.,”, insert “Castanea Mill.,”.

(1)

Paragraphs 1 and 7(a) of part A of Schedule 7 were amended by S.R. 2006 No. 435, articles (2)(13) and (14). Sub-paragraph 7(d) was previously amended by S.R. 2006 No. 165, article 4(2). There are other amendments to Part A of Schedule 7, but none is relevant.

(2)

Paragraph 3 was previously amended by S.R. 2008 No. 205, article 7(b).