S.I. No. 11/2008 - European Communities (Phytosanitary Measures) (Brown Rot in Egypt) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Phytosanitary Measures) (Brown Rot in Egypt) (Amendment) Regulations 2008.

2. The European Communities (Phytosanitary Measures) (Brown Rot in Egypt) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 261 of 2007

) are amended, in Regulation 2(1) by the substitution for the definition of “Commission Decision”, of—

“ ‘Commission Decision’ means Commission Decision No. 2004/4/EC of 22 December 2003, Commission Decision No. 2004/836/EC of 6 December 2004, Commission Decision No. 2005/840/EC of 25 November 2005, Commission Decision No. 2006/749/EC of 31 October 2006 and Commission Decision No. 2007/842/EC of 6 December 2007;”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 January 2008

MARY COUGHLAN.

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These Regulations provide for the updating of emergency measures against the spreading of Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith within the community as regards Egypt.

1 O.J. No. L 332 of 18.12.2007, p. 80.

S.I. No. 11 of 2008

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (PHYTOSANITARY MEASURES) (BROWN ROT IN EGYPT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

29

th January

, 2008.

I, MARY COUGHLAN, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act 1972

(No. 27 of 1972) for the purpose of giving full effect to Commission Decision No. 2007/842/EC of 6 December 2007

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, hereby make the following Regulations—