Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 19,151, 14 ta’ Ottubru, 2013

L.N. 323 of 2013

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables

(Amendment) Regulations, 2013

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

Quarantine Act, the Minister for Sustainable Development, the

Environment and Climate Change has made the following

regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Seeds of Citation and

Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, scope.

and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 433.21

referred to as "the principal regulations".

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

Directive 2012/37/EU amending certain Annexes of Council

Directives 66/401/EC and 66/402/EEC as regards the conditions to be

satisfied by the seed of Galega orientalis Lam., the maximum weight

of a seed lot of certain fodder plant species and the sample size of

Sorghum spp.

In the second column of Table 1.14 of Schedule III to the Amends

principal regulations, under the entry Galega orientalis, the words Schedule

the principal

"60" , shall be substituted by the words "60(a)(b)".

regulations.

Schedule IV to the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

Schedule IV to

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

Table 1.17 thereof shall be substituted by the

following

Weight of a

sample for

determination

Minimum

by number

Maximum

weight of a provided for in

" Species

weight of a sample to be

Table 1.11 &

lot (tonnes) drawn from a columns

4 to 8

lot (grams) of Table 1.12

(Schedule III)

(grams)

Avena nuda,

Avena sativa,

Weight of a

sample for

determination

Minimum

by number

Maximum

weight of a

provided for in

" Species

weight of a sample to be

Table 1.11 &

lot (tonnes) drawn from a

columns 4 to 8

lot (grams) of Table 1.12

(Schedule III)

(grams)

Avena strigosa,

Hordeum vulgare,

Triticum aestivum,

Triticum durum,

Triticum spelta,

x Triticosecale,

Secale cereale

Phalaris canariensis

Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench

Sorghum sudanense (Piper)

Hybrids of Sorghum bicolor

( L ) M o e n c h x S o rg h u m

sudanense (Piper) Stapf

Zea mays , basic seed of

inbred lines

Zea mays, basic seed other

than inbred lines; certified

1000 ".

(b)

Table 1.18 thereof shall be amended as follows

(i) in the first column for the words "Poaceae

(Gramineae)" there shall be substituted the words

"Poaceae (Gramineae) (*)"; and

(ii) Immediately below the said Table 18 there

shall be added the following sentence as a footnote

"(*) the maximum lot weight may be increased to 25

tonnes if the supplier has been authorised for this purpose

by the competent authority.".

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