Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 20,370, 20 ta’ Marzu, 2020

Taqsima B

L.N. 87 of 2020

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment) 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) Regulations, 2020 and they shall scope.

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

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

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

Implementing Decision 2019/120 amending Council Directive 2008/

90/EC as regards the extension of the derogation relating to import

conditions for fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended

for fruit production from third countries.

Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 4 of

substituted by the following

the principal

regulations.

"4. (1) Professional operators introducing fruit plant

propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit

production from another EU Member State shall declare the

introduction of such material forty-eight (48) hours prior to its

arrival in Malta, through the Supplementary Declaration System

of Malta (Intrastat), of each lot received by them.

(2) The non-professional final users being supplied with

fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit

production from another EU Member State shall also inform the

Directorate by means of the EU Plant Notification Form (For

General Public) available on the Directorate’s website, forty-

eight (48) hours prior to the arrival of the plant material in Malta

of each lot received by them.

(3) The professional operators and the non-professional

final users being supplied with fruit plant propagating material

and fruit plants intended for fruit production from a third country

shall also inform the Directorate by means of the Third Countries

Notification Form available on the Directorate’s website forty-

eight hours (48) prior to the arrival, of the plant material in Malta

of each lot received by them.".

In sub-regulation (3) of regulation 16 of the principal

Amends

regulation 16 of

regulations, the words "31st December, 2018", shall be substituted by

the principal

the words "31st December, 2022".

regulations.

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