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

Derogations to the requirement to give prior notification in accordance with Article 1(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1013

7.—(1) The responsible operator of a controlled consignment which is to be brought into Wales by air must have notified the appropriate authority of the consignment’s expected arrival at least four working hours before its expected arrival in Wales.

(2) In the case of any controlled consignment which consists, in whole or in part, of unprocessed logs or sawn or chipped wood and is to be brought into Wales at a point of entry which only has a temporary border control post, the responsible operator must have notified the Welsh Ministers of the consignment’s arrival at least three working days before its expected arrival in Wales.

(3) Article 1(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1013 does not apply to any responsible operator of a controlled consignment referred to in paragraph (1) or (2).

(4) In this regulation—

“Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1013” (“Rheoliad Gweithredu’r Comisiwn (EU) 2019/1013”) means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1013 on prior notification of consignments of certain categories of animals and goods entering the Union(1);

“responsible operator” (“gweithredwr cyfrifol”), in relation to a controlled consignment, means an operator who is required to ensure that the consignment is presented for official controls at the border control post of first arrival into the Union in accordance with Article 47(5) of the Official Controls Regulation;

“temporary border control post” (“safle rheoli dros dro ar y ffin”) means a border control post in Wales which has been exempted from the obligations in Article 64(3)(a), (c) and (f) of the Official Controls Regulation pursuant to Article 4 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1012 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council by derogating from the rules on the designation of control points and from the minimum requirements for border control posts(2);

“working day” (“diwrnod gwaith”) means any day, other than—

(a)

a Saturday or Sunday,

(b)

Christmas Day or Good Friday, or

(c)

a bank holiday in Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(3);

“working hour” (“awr waith”) means a period of one hour during a day which in Wales is a working day, and “working hours” includes hours during more than one working day.

(1)

OJ No. L 165, 21.6.2019, p. 8.

(2)

OJ No. L 165, 21.6.2019, p. 4.

(3)

1971 c. 80, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.