Control of the Red Palm Weevil (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

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

Taqsima B

L.N. 21 of 2011

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Control of the Red Palm Weevil (Amendment) Regulations, 2011

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 regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Control of the Red Title.

Palm Weevil (Amendment) Regulations, 2011 and they shall be

read and construed as one with Control of the Red Palm Weevil

Regulations, 2009 hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 42 of 2009.

regulations”.

In regulation 2 of the principal regulations, for the Amends regulation

words “and amendments” there shall be substituted the words regulations.

“and Commission Decision 2010/467/EU as regards susceptible

plants and the measures to be taken in cases where Rhynchophorus

ferrugineus (Olivier) is detected”.

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 Director”,

there shall be added the following new definition

“ “the Directorate” means the Plant Health

Directorate;”, and

for the words “the Department” wherever they

occur in the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the words “the Directorate”; and

(c) for the definition “susceptible plants” there shall be

substituted the following definition

“ “susceptible plants” means plants, other than

fruit and seeds, having a diameter of the stem at the

base of over 5 cm of Areca catechu, Arecastrum

romanzoffianum, Arenga pinnata, Borassus flabellifer,

Brahea armata, Butia capitata, Calamus merillii,

Caryota maxima, Caryota cumingii, Chamaerops

humilis, Cocos nucifera, Corypha gebanga, Corypha

elata, Elaeis guineensis, Howea forsteriana, Jubea

chilensis, Livistona australis, Livistona decipiens,

Metroxylon sagu, Oreodoxa regia, Phoenix canariensis,

Phoenix dactylifera, Phoenix theophrasti, Phoenix

sylvestris, Sabal umbraculifera, Trachycarpus fortunei

and Washingtonia spp.”.

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 5 of the principal

regulations, the words “, until the 17th April, 2009” shall be

Regulation 10 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) in sub-regulation (1) thereof for the words “and

its amendments” there shall be substituted the words

“and Commission Decision 2010/467/EU as regards the

susceptible plants and the measures to be taken in cases

where Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) is detected”; and

(b) in sub-regulation (2) thereof for the words “and

its” there shall be substituted the words “and Commission

Decision 2010/467/EU as regards the susceptible plants and

the measures to be taken in cases where Rhynchophorus

ferrugineus (Olivier) is detected and their”.

In sub-regulation (3) of regulation 11 of the principal

regulations immediately after the words “[Rhynchophorus

ferrugineus (Olivier)]” there shall be added the words “and

Commission Decision 2010/467/EU as regards the susceptible

plants and the measures to be taken in cases where Rhynchophorus

ferrugineus (Olivier) is detected”.

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