Regulations, 2020

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 20,387, 13 ta’ April, 2020

L.N. 144 of 2020

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment No. 2)

Regulations, 2020

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

Quarantine Act, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal

Rights, has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is Fruit Trees Citation and

Propagation Material (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2020 and they scope.

shall be read and construed as one with the Fruit Trees Propagation S.L. 433.08.

Material Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal

regulations".

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

Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1813 amending Implementing

Directive 2014/96/EU on the requirements for the labelling, sealing

and packaging of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants

intended for fruit production, falling within the scope of Council

Directive 2008/90/EC as regards the colour of the label for certified

categories of propagating material and fruit plants and the content of

the supplier’s document.

Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends

Schedule II to

follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) item (4) of Section I thereof, shall be substituted by

the following

"(4) The colour of the label shall be

(a) white with a diagonal violet stripe for pre-

basic material;

(b)

white for basic material;

(c)

blue for certified material."; and

(b) Section IV thereof, shall be substituted by the

following

"IV. Supplier’s document for CAC material

(1) The responsible official body shall ensure

that CAC material is marketed with a document

prepared by the supplier in compliance with items

(2), (3) and (4) hereunder, hereinafter "the supplier’s

document".

The responsible official body shall ensure that

the supplier’s document does not resemble the

accompanying document referred to in Section I or an

accompanying document referred to in Section II, so

as to avoid any possible confusion between those two

documents.

(2) The supplier’s document shall contain at

least the following information

(a) the

indication

"EU

rules

and

standards";

(b) the name of the Member State

where the document has been prepared, or the

respective code;

(c) the responsible official body or the

respective code;

(d) the name of the supplier or its

registration number, or code issued by the

responsible official body;

(e) the individual serial number, week

number or batch number;

(f)

the botanical name;

(g)

the indication "CAC material";

(h) the denomination of the variety and,

where appropriate, the clone. In the case of

rootstocks not belonging to a variety: the name

of the species or the interspecific hybrid

concerned. For grafted fruit plants, such

information shall be given for the rootstock and

the top-graft. For varieties for which an

application for official registration or for a plant

variety right is pending, such information shall

indicate: "proposed denomination" and

"application pending"; and

(i)

the date of issue of the document.

(3) Where the supplier’s document is affixed

to the CAC material, the colour of the supplier’s

document shall be yellow.

(4) The supplier’s document shall be

indelibly printed in one of the official languages of

the Union, clearly visible and legible.".

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