Regulations, 2025

L.N. 4 of 2025

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT

(CAP. 549)

Trees and Woodlands Protection (Amendment)

Regulations, 2025

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 54 and 55 of

the Environment Protection Act, the Minister responsible for the

environment after consultation with the Environment and Resources

Authority, has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Trees and Woodlands Citation.

Protection (Amendment) Regulations, 2025, and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Trees and Woodlands S.L. 549.123.

Protection Regulations, hereinafter referred to as the "principal

regulations".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 3 of the principal Amends

regulations, immediately after the definition "poison" there shall be regulation

the principal

added the following new definition

regulations.

" "pot" includes any receptacle or container;".

In the Maltese version only, in sub-regulation (2) of Amends

regulation 9 of the principal regulations, the words "kwalunkwe regulation

the principal

eżemplari elenkata" shall be substituted by the words "kwalunkwe regulations.

eżemplari ta’ speċi elenkata".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 16 of the principal Amends

regulations the words "near any protected tree or any protected area" regulation

the principal

shall be substituted by the words "near any protected tree or within any regulations.

protected area".

The Second Schedule to the principal regulations shall be Substitutes the

Second

substituted by the following new Schedule

Schedule to the

principal

regulations.

"SECOND SCHEDULE

(Regulations 3, 9, 10, 11 and 12)

INVASIVE, ALIEN OR ENVIRONMENTALLY-

INCOMPATIBLE SPECIES

The species listed below shall be subject to the provisions

of regulation 9, however trees belonging to the species marked

with the sign (†) shall be protected in urban public open spaces.

SCIENTIFIC NAME

MALTESE NAME

ENGLISH NAME

All Acacia and

Acacia spp.

L-Akaċja kollha

Wattle trees

Tree-of-Heaven;

Ailanthus altissima

Ix-Xumakk;

Ix-

False

Sumach;

[=

Ailanthus

Japanese Varnish

Xumakk Falz

glandulosa]

Tree

All Australian Pine

Casuarina spp.

Il-Każwarina kollha

Tree and Sheoaks

L-Ewkaliptus inkluż

All Eucalypt Trees,

Eucalyptus spp. †

is-Siġar tal-Gamiem

including

Gum

kollha†

Trees and Tuarts †

Leucaena

[=

leucocephala

Lead Tree; White

L-Albizzja; Il-Gażżija

Acacia leucocephala;

Popinac;

Cow

Albizzia lebbek auct.

l-Bajda

Tamarind

fl.

Melit.]

It-Tabakk tas-Swar;

Tree

Tobacco;

Is-Siġra tat-Tabakk;

Nicotiana glauca

Mustard Tree

It-Tabakk l-Isfar

Shrubby

Putterlick;

Il-Pittosporum

Pittosporum tobira

Japanese

Mock

Orange

Ir-Riġnu; Il-Ħarwija

Castor Oil Tree

Ricinus communis

Is-Siġra tal-Bżar; Il-

Schinus

Brazilian Pepper

Bżar Falz

terebinthifolius

Vachellia karroo

Il-Gażżija tax-Xewk;

[= Acacia karroo; =

Karroo

Thorn;

Ix-Xewk ta’ Kristu;

Sweet Thorn".

Acacia horrida auct. fl.

L-Akaċja tax-Xewk

Melit.]

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