Regulations, 2020

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 20,515, 6 ta’ Novembru, 2020

L.N. 422 of 2020

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment No. 3)

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 the Seeds of Citation and

Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment No. 3) Regulations, scope.

2020 and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables, hereinafter referred to as S.L. 433. 30.

"the principal regulations".

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

Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/432 of 23 March 2020 amending

Council Directive 2002/55/EC with regards to the definition of

vegetables and the list of genera and species in Article 2(1)(b).

In regulation 3 of the principal regulations, the definition Amends

regulation 3 of

"vegetables" shall be substituted by the following new definition

the principal

regulations.

" "vegetables" means plants of the genera and species and

all hybrids of the species and groups listed in Table 1.5 of

Schedule I, intended for agricultural or horticultural production,

but not for ornamental uses.".

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