Regulations, 2004

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,679, 19 ta’ Novembru, 2004

L.N. 480 of 2004

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT, 2001

Plant Quarantine (Harmful Organisms) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2004

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 32 of the Plant

Quarantine Act, 2001, the Minister for Rural Affairs and the

Environment has made the following regulations<-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Plant Quarantine Title

commencement.

(Harmful Organisms) (Amendment) Regulations, 2004 and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Plant Quarantine (Harmful L.N. 97 of 2004.

Organisms) Regulations, 2004, hereinfafter referred to as “the principal

regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 20th April, 2004.

Scope.

The scope of these regulations is to implement the

amendments made by European Union Commission Directive 2004#32

amending Directive 2001#32 concerning certain zones exposed to

particular plant health risks in the European Community.

Amends Schedule

VII of the principal

Item 16 of Schedule VII of the principal regulations shall be

regulations.

amended as follows<

(a) in paragraph (b) thereof, for item 2 there shall be substituted

the following>

“2.

Erwinia amylovora (Burr.) Wirisl. et al.

Spain, France (Corsica), Ireland, Italy (Abruzzi< Apulia<

Basilicata< Calabria< Campania< Emilia-Romagna< provinces

of Forli>- Cesena, Parma, Piacenza and Rimini< Friuli -Venezia

Giulia< Lazio< Liguria< Lombardy< Marche< Molise< Piedmont<

Sardinia< Sicily< Trentino - Alto Adige> autonomous province

of Trento< Tuscany< Umbria< Valle d’Aosta< Veneto> except

in the province of Rovigo the communes Rovigo, Polesella,

Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine,

Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arqu Polesine,

Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo,

Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo,

Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po,

Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara,

Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova the

communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d’Adige,

Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province

of Verona the communes Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago,

Castagnaro, Ronco all’Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano,

Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), and for Austria (Burgenland,

Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz),

Styria, Vienna), Portugal, Finland, United Kingdom (Northern

Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands)”< and

(b)

in paragraph (d) thereof, for item 1 there shall be

substituted the following>-

“1. Beet necrotic yellow vein virus

Denmark, France (Brittany), Ireland, Portugal (Azores),

Finland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)”.

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