The Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

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

4.  After regulation 6 insert—

“Further provision relating to Palmae

6A.— (1) In addition to meeting the requirements of regulation 4, propagating material of Palmae belonging to the genera and species referred to in the Annex to 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(1) and having a diameter of the stem at the base of over 5 cm must meet the condition set out in paragraph (2) or the conditions set out in paragraph (3).

(2) The condition is that the material has been grown for its entire life in an area which has been established as free from the organism by a responsible official body in accordance with relevant International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures.

(3) The conditions are that the material has been grown in the two years prior to its marketing in a site subject to visual inspections carried out at least once every four months confirming the freedom of that material from the organism and it has been grown in a site—

(a) with complete physical protection against the introduction of the organism, or

(b) where the appropriate preventative treatments have been applied with respect to the organism.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation—

• “International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures” means International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures prepared by the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention established by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations(2);

• “the organism” means “Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier)”;

• “responsible official body” means a body described in Article 2(1)(g) of Directive 2000/29/EC”(3).

(1)

OJ No L 250, 7.10.1993, p. 9, as last amended by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/484 (OJ No L 81, 23.4.2018, p. 10).

(2)

Available from the IPPC Secretariat, AGPP-FAO, Viale Delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy and at https://www.ippc.int/en/core-activities/standards-setting/ispms/.

(3)

OJ No L 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1, as last amended by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2017/1920 (OJ No L 271, 20.10.2017, p. 34).