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

2.—(1) The Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material Regulations 1999 M1 are amended as follows. E+W

(2) In regulation 2(1)—

(a) in the appropriate place insert—

““the EU Plant Health Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants;”;

(b) omit the definition of “Directive 2000/29/EC”.

(3) In regulation 6A(4), in the definition of “responsible official body”, for the words from “a body” to the end, substitute “ , in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers ”.

(4) In regulation 7, for paragraph (4) substitute—

“(4) Registration of a supplier on the register of professional operators for the purposes of the EU Plant Health Regulation is deemed to constitute registration for the purposes of paragraph (1) above.”

(5) In regulation 8(3)—

(a) for the words from “notifiable” to “Order 2018” substitute “ plant pest of a description specified in Annex 2, 3 or 4 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, ”;

(b) for “article 42 of that Order (notification of the presence or suspected presence of certain plant pests)” substitute “ the EU Plant Health Regulation ”.

(6) In regulation 9(2), for “Directive 2000/29/EC” substitute “ the EU Plant Health Regulation ”.

(7) In regulation 12(3), for the words from “if he delivers” to the end substitute “ , in relation to Wales, if the supplier delivers a phytosanitary certificate for export or a phytosanitary certificate for re-export to the Welsh Ministers ”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 5 para. 2 in force at 27.3.2020, see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 1999/1801; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2018/974, S.I. 2018/1216 (W. 249) and S.I. 2019/463 (W. 111).