Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,702, 25 ta’ Jannar, 2011

Taqsima B

L.N. 17 of 2011

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

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

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

has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Forest Reproductive Title.

Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and they shall be read

and construed as one with the Forest Reproductive Material

Regulations, 2004, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 273 of 2004.

regulations”.

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) the definition “the Department” shall be deleted;

(b) immediately after the definition “the Directorate”,

there shall be added the following new definition

“ “the Directorate” means the Directorate

responsible for plant health;” and

(c) for the words “the Department” wherever

they occur in the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the words “the Directorate”.

For regulation 21 of the principal regulations, there shall Amends regulation

be substituted the following

(1)

In order to prevent trade patterns from being

disrupted, the Directorate shall determine whether forest

reproductive material produced in third countries referred to

in Commission Decision 2008/989/EC authorising Member

States, in accordance with Council Directive 1999/105/EC, to

take decisions on the equivalence of the guarantees afforded

by forest reproductive material to be imported from certain

third countries, affords the same guarantees as regards the

approval of its basic material and the measures taken for its

production, with a view to marketing as in the case of forest

reproductive material produced within the European Union

and which complies with the provisions of these regulations.

(2) The provisions contained in Council Decision

2008/971/EC on the equivalence of forest reproductive

material produced in third countries, shall apply in case of

third countries referred to in such Decision.”.

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