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Amendment to the Official Controls and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2021

2.—(1) The Official Controls and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2021(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1)(a), immediately before the comma insert “falling on or after 4th March 2021”.

(3) In regulation 4, at the end insert—

(4) This regulation does not apply in relation to any part of the transitional staging period falling before 4th March 2021..

(4) In regulation 5(1)(b), in the text substituted in the table in Part B of Annex 7, in the first column, for entry 2 substitute—

2.  Plants for planting, other than seeds, that belong to the genera and species listed in the list of Xylella host plants, other than those referred to in entries 3, 4 and 5 of this Table.

(5) In paragraph (4), “Annex 7” means Annex 7 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and the Council, as regards protective measures against pests of plants(2).

(2)

Annex 7 of EUR 2019/2072 was substituted by Schedule 7 to S.I. 2020/1527.