The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 2002

Amendment of the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993

2.—(1) The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993(1) (“the Order”) shall be amended in accordance with this article.

(2) In article 2(1) of the Order—

(a) for the definition of “;Directive 77/93/EEC”(2) there shall be substituted the following text:

• “‘Directive 2000/29/EC’ means Council Directive 2000/29/EC(3) of 8th May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community as amended by Commission Directive 2001/33/EC(4) of 8th May 2001 amending certain annexes to Council Directive 2000/29/EC;” and

(b) in the definition of “protected zone”, for “Directive 77/93/EEC” in sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted “Directive 2000/29/EC”, and for “Article 16a of Directive 77/93/EEC” there shall be substituted “Article 18 of Directive 2000/29/EC”.

(3) In article 28 of the Order, for “Directive 77/93/EEC” there shall be substituted “Directive 2000/29/EC”.

(4) In Schedule 5 (Restrictions on consignments of relevant material to member States), Part B, items 7, 15 and 23 shall be deleted.

(5) For Schedule 6 (Description of the Dendroctonus micans protected zone) there shall be substituted the text in the Schedule to this Order.

(6) Schedule 7 (Meaning of “Directive 77/93/EEC”, Instruments amending Council Directive 77/93/EEC) shall be deleted.

(1)

S.I. 1993/1283, amemded by S.I. 1994/3094, 1995/1989, 1996/751, 1998/2206 and 3109 and 2001/2995.

(2)

OJ No. L26, 31.1.77, p. 20.

(3)

OJ No. L169, 10.7.00.

(4)

OJ No. L127, 9.5.01, p. 42; and see the associated Commission Directive 2001/32/EC of 8th May 2001 (OJ No. L127, 9.5.01, p. 38) recognising protected zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the Community and repealing Directive 92/76/EEC.