Regulations, 2009

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,373, 30 ta’ Jannar, 2009

Taqsima B

L.N. 33 of 2009

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Plant Quarantine (Harmful Organisms) Amendment

Regulations, 2009

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

Quarantine Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs has

made the following rules:-

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

(Harmful Organisms) Amendment Regulations, 2009 and they shall

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

Organisms) Regulations 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the

principal regulations”.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose

Commission Directive 2008/109/EC of 28 November, 2008

amending Directive 2000/29/EC.

Section I in Part A of Schedule IV to the principal

regulations shall be amended as follows

(a) for point 2 thereof there shall be substituted the

following

“2. Wood packaging material, in the form The wood packaging material shall

of packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and — be free from bark with the exception of

similar packings, pallets, box pallets and

any number of individual pieces of

other load boards, pallet collars, actually in

bark if they are either less than 3 cm in

use in the transport of objects of all kinds,

width (regardless of the length) or, if

except raw wood of 6 mm thickness or less,

greater than 3 cm in width, of not more

than 50 cm 2 in area, and

and processed wood produced by glue, heat

and pressure, or a combination thereof,

— be subject to one of the approved

coming from third countries, except

treatments as specified in Annex I to

Switzerland.

FAO International Standard for

Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on

Guidelines for regulating wood

packaging material in international

trade, and

— display a mark as specified in Annex II

to FAO International Standard for

Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on

Guidelines for regulating wood

packaging material in international

trade, indicating that the wood

packaging material has been subjected

to an approved phytosanitary

treatment.

The first indent shall only apply from 1

July, 2009.”; and

(b) for point 8 thereof there shall be substituted the following

“ 8. Wood used to wedge or support non-

The wood shall

wood cargo, including that which has not

— be free from bark with the exception of

kept its natural round surface, except raw

any number of individual pieces of

wood of 6 mm thickness or less and

bark if they are either less than 3 cm in

processed wood produced by glue, heat and

width (regardless of the length) or, if

pressure, or a combination thereof, coming

greater than 3 cm in width, of not more

than 50 cm 2 in area, and

from third countries, except Switzerland.

— be subject to one of the approved

treatments as specified in Annex I to

FAO International Standard for

Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on

Guidelines for regulating wood

packaging material in international

trade, and

— display a mark as specified in Annex II

to FAO International Standard for

Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on

Guidelines for regulating wood

packaging material in international

trade, indicating that the wood has

been subjected to an approved

phytosanitary treatment.

The first indent shall only apply from 1

July, 2009.”.

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