The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020

PART 2 Competent authorities: plant health

Designation of competent authorities

6.—(1) The Welsh Ministers are designated as the competent authority responsible for the organisation and the performance of official controls and other official activities in Wales insofar as they relate to—

(a) plant pests, plants, tree pests, trees, forestry material or non-forestry material, or

(b) forestry professional operators or other professional operators.

(2) In this regulation—

“forestry material” (“deunydd coedwigaeth”) means—

(a)

wood which retains part or all of its natural round surface, with or without bark;

(b)

wood in the form of chips, particles, shavings, sawdust, wood waste or scrap;

(c)

conifer trees over 3m in height;

(d)

bark which has been removed or become detached from, or from part of, a living, felled or fallen tree;

“forestry professional operator” (“gweithredwr proffesiynol coedwigaeth”) means a professional operator who carries out one or more of the following activities, but no other activities described in Article 2(9) of the EU Plant Health Regulation—

(a)

the introduction of forestry material into Wales;

(b)

the storage, aggregation or movement of forestry material within Wales, the movement of forestry material into Wales from another part of the Union territory or the movement of forestry material from Wales to another part of the Union territory;

(c)

the export of forestry material from Wales to a third country;

(d)

the treatment and marking of wood packaging material or forestry material in accordance with Annex 1 to ISPM 15 or the repair of wood packaging material in Wales;

(e)

the introduction of tree pests into Wales, the movement of tree pests within Wales or the holding or multiplication of tree pests in Wales, for official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding;

(f)

the introduction of trees or forestry material into Wales or the movement of trees or forestry material within Wales, for use in official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding;

“non-forestry material” (“deunydd nad yw’n ddeunydd coedwigaeth”) means plants, plant products or other objects, other than forestry material;

“tree” (“coeden”) means a living tree or shrub, or a living part of a tree or shrub, at any stage of its growth;

“tree pest” (“pla coed”) means a plant pest which is injurious to trees or wood;

“wood packaging material” (“deunydd pecynnu pren”) means wood or wood products (excluding paper products) used, or intended to be used, for supporting, protecting or carrying a commodity of any kind, including dunnage.