Forest Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2013

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 19,189, 31 ta’ Diċembru,

L.N. 454 of 2013

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Forest Reproductive Material (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 Forest Citation and

Reproductive Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2013, and these scope.

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Forest

Reproductive Material Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the S.L. 433.10

principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to give effect to Decision

No 1104/2012/EU amending Council Decision 2008/971/EC to

include forest reproductive material of the "qualified category" and to

update the name of the authorities responsible for the approval and

control of the production.

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 2 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

in sub-regulation (1) thereof, for the words "to make

provisions for assuring that" there shall be substituted the words

"to transpose Council Directive 1999/105/EC on the marketing

of forest reproductive material, to ensure that"; and

(b) in sub-regulation (2) thereof, immediately after the

words "Schedule I of these regulations" there shall be added the

words "and shall apply without prejudice to 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, and Council Decision 2008/971/EC on the

equivalence of forest reproductive material produced in third

countries as amended by Decision No 1104/2012/EU".

In regulation 3 of the principal regulations, immediately Amends

after the definition "supplier " there shall be added the following new regulation

the principal

definition

regulations.

" "third countries" means countries referred to in Council

Decision 2008/971/EC and Commission Decision 2008/989/

EC.".

Regulation 21 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) in sub-regulation (1) thereof, the words "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" shall be deleted; and

(b) in sub-regulation (2) thereof, immediately after the

words "produced in third countries," there shall be added the

words "as amended by Decision No 1104/2012/EU,".

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