Amendment of Commission Delegated Regulation 2019/829I12
1
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/829 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants, authorising Member States to provide for temporary derogations in view of official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selections, or breeding2 is amended as follows.
2
Omit Article 3 (recording of information).
3
In Article 6(4) (letter of authority)—
a
for the first subparagraph, substitute—
The letter of authority issued by the competent authority3 for a type of specified material covers all introductions into or movement within Great Britain of that material, subject to the following condition.
For movement within Great Britain, a copy of the letter of authority must be endorsed by the competent authority of the relevant territory of Great Britain from which the material is to be moved (where that authority is not the issuing authority).
b
for the second subparagraph, substitute—
The letter of authority is valid until the end of 31st December in the calendar year in which it is issued.
4
In Annex 1, in paragraph 1—
a
in point (c), omit “the number of sendings and the quantity per sending in case of multiple sendings,”;
b
in point (d), for the words from “, address” to “case”, substitute “and address (including country), with appropriate documentary evidence where”
.
5
For Annex 2 (model letter of authority), substitute the model letter of authority set out in the Schedule.