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

Notification requirements in relation to other plants and plant products E+W

26.—(1) A professional operator who is bringing any of the following plants or plant products into Wales must, before or no later than four days after the date of their arrival in Wales, provide written notification to a plant health inspector of the matters referred to in paragraph (2)—

(a) plants of Castanea Mill., Fraxinus L., Olea europaea L., Pinus L., Platanus L., Prunus L., Quercus L. or Ulmus L. intended for planting, which have been grown or are suspected of having been grown in another member State,

(b) plants of Castanea Mill., Fraxinus L., Olea europaea L., Pinus L., Platanus L., Prunus L., Quercus L. or Ulmus L. intended for planting, which have been grown or are suspected of having been grown in Switzerland and to which Article 47(1) of the Official Controls Regulation does not apply, or

(c) solid fuel wood from another member State, or solid fuel wood from a third country to which Article 47(1) of the Official Controls Regulation does not apply.

(2) The matters are—

(a) the expected date of the arrival of the consignment or, if the consignment has arrived in Wales, the date on which it first arrived in Wales;

(b) the intended destination of the consignment, or if the consignment has arrived at its intended destination in Wales, its current location;

(c) the genus, species and quantity of the plants or wood in the consignment;

(d) the country from which the plants or wood have been, or are to be, consigned;

(e) in the case of plants intended for planting, the identification number of the supplier of the plants;

(f) in the case of solid fuel wood—

(i) the address of the consignor, and

(ii) details of any phytosanitary treatments applied to the wood.

(3) In this regulation “solid fuel wood” means fuel wood in the form of logs, billets, twigs, faggots or other similar forms.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 26 in force at 27.3.2020, see reg. 1