The Marketing of Seed Potatoes, Plant and Propagating Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

The Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

3.—(1) The Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(2), before the definition of “Directive 98/56/EC” insert—

“”Directive 93/49/EEC” means Commission Directive 93/49/EEC setting out the schedule indicating the conditions to be met by ornamental plant propagating material and ornamental plants pursuant to Council Directive 91/682/EEC as last amended by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/177 and any reference to the Annex to Directive 93/49/EEC is a reference to that Annex as amended from time to time;” (2).

(3) In regulation 4—

(a) the existing text becomes paragraph (1);

(b) after sub-paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) have been found at the place of production to be practically free, at least on visual inspection, from all pests listed in the Annex to Directive 93/49/EEC in relation to that propagating material;

(ab) be free, at least on visual inspection, from any RNQP in a quantity exceeding the thresholds set out in the Annex to Directive 93/49/EEC for the presence of that RNQP;

(ac) be, at least on visual inspection, practically free from, and from any signs or symptoms of, any pests which reduce its usefulness or quality as propagating material, other than the pests listed in the Annex to Directive 93/49/EEC in relation to the respective propagating material;

(ad) comply with the requirements concerning Union quarantine pests, protected zone quarantine pests and RNQPs set out in the implementing acts adopted pursuant to the EU Plant Health Regulation, and measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1) of that Regulation;”.

(c) after paragraph (1) insert—

“(2) In this regulation—

“protected zone quarantine pest” means a pest within the meaning given by Article 32(1) of the EU Plant Health Regulation;

“RNQP” means a Union regulated non-quarantine pest within the meaning given by Article 36 of the EU Plant Health Regulation;

“Union quarantine pest” means a pest within the meaning given by Article 4 of the EU Plant Health Regulation.”.

(4) Omit regulation 6A.

(1)

S.R. 1999 No. 502, amended prospectively on IP completion day by S.I. 2019/211, as amended by S.I. 2019/820; there are other amendments but none is relevant.

(2)

O.J. No. L 250, 7.10.1993, p. 9.