Regulations, 2010

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,548, 12 ta’ Frar, 2010

L.N. 77of 2010

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Plant Quarantine (Harmful Organisms) (Amendment)

Regulations, 2010

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, 2010 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 2009/118/EC of the 9 th September, 2009

amending Directive 2000/29/EC.

Part B of Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows:-

(a) in point 2 of heading (b), in the third column,

Protected zone(s), the words “A (Burgenland, Carinthia,

Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria

and Vienna),” shall be deleted; and

(b) in point 0.1 of heading (c), in the third column,

Protected zone(s), the words “EL (Crete, Lesvos),” shall be

deleted.

Part B of Schedule III to the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows:-

(a) in point 1, in the second column, Protected zone(s),

the words “A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol

(administrative district Lienz), Styria and Vienna),” shall be

deleted; and

(b) in point 2, in the second column, Protected zone(s),

the words “A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol

(administrative district Lienz), Styria and Vienna),” shall be

deleted.

Schedule IV to the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows

(a) Part A thereof shall be amended as follows

(i) in point 16.5 of Section I, in the second

column, Special requirements, in the first sentence, the

words “Schedule III(B)(2), (3), and” shall be deleted;

and

(ii) in point 46 of Section I, in the second column,

Special requirements, in the first sentence, the words

“(45),” shall be deleted; and

(b)

Part B thereof shall be amended as follows

(i) in points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, in the second

column, Special requirements, in the first sentence, the

words “Schedule IV(A)(I)(1.1), (1.2), (1.3), (1.4), (1.5),

(7)” wherever they occur shall be substituted by the

words “Schedule IV(A)(I)(1.1), (1.2), (1.3), (1.4), (1.5),

(1.6), (1.7)”;

(ii) in points 6.3 and 14.9, in the third column,

Protected zone(s), the words “EL (Crete, Lesvos),”

wherever they occur shall be deleted;

(iii) in point 14.9, in the third column, Protected

zone(s), the word “DK,” shall be deleted;

(iv) in point 21, in the third column, Protected

zone(s), the words “A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower

Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria and

Vienna),” shall be deleted; and

(v) in point 21.3, in the third column, Protected

zone(s), the words “A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower

Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria and

Vienna),” shall be deleted.

Schedule V to the principal regulations shall be amended Amends Schedule

as follows

(a) in point I.1.7.(b) of Part A, in the first column

of the table, CN code, the words “ex 4401 30 90” shall be

substituted by the words “ex 4401 30 80”;

(b) in point I.6.(b) of Part B, the fourth entry

“4401 30 10

Sawdust”

shall be substituted by

“ex 4401 30 40

Sawdust,

not

agglomerated

in

logs,

briquettes,

pellets or similar

forms”

; and

(c) in point I.6.(b) of Part B, in the first column

of the table, CN code, the words “ex 4401 30 90” shall be

substituted by the words “ex 4401 30 80”.