Plant Quarantine (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations, 2005

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,813, 2 ta’ Settembru, 2005

L.N. 308 of 2005

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT, 2001

(ACT NO. XVIII OF 2001)

Plant Quarantine (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations, 2005

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 and Scope.

(Harmful Organisms) (Amendment) Regulations, 2005 and they shall

be read and construed as one with the Plant Quarantine (Harmful

Organisms) Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 97 of 2004.

regulations”.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose the

provisions found in Directive 2005#15#EC of 28 February 2005,

amending Directive 2004#102 on protective measures against the

introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant

products and against their spread within the Community, which has

been transposed as the principal regulations.

(a) In Part A of section I of Schedule IV to the principal Amends Schedule

regulations, point 2, the following paragraph shall be added at the end IV

regulations.

of the right hand column after the words “of veneer sheets”>–

“The first indent, requiring wood packaging material to be

made from debarked round wood, shall only apply from the 1 st

March, 2006”.

(b) in point 8 thereof, the following paragraph shall be added

at the end of the right hand column, after the words “(non-European)>–

“The first line of point (a), requiring wood packaging material

to be made from debarked round wood, shall only apply from the

1 st of March 2006”.

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