EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Plant Health (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/610) to implement—
(a)Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1503 establishing measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Aromia bungii (Faldermann) (OJ No. L 254, 10.10.2018, p. 9);
(b)Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/449 amending Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715 setting out measures in respect of certain fruits originating in certain third countries to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of the harmful organism Phyllosticta citricarpa (McAlpine) Van der Aa (OJ No. L 77, 20.3.2019, p. 76); and
(c)Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/523 amending Annexes I to V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (OJ No. L 86, 28.3.2019, p. 41).
It also introduces emergency measures to prevent the introduction of Rose rosette virus and its vector Phyllocoptes fructiphilus (Keifer 1940).
An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.