Various Subsidiary Legislation under the Plant Quarantine Act

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 21,448, 3 ta’ Ġunju, 2025

L.N. 95 of 2025

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Various Subsidiary Legislation under the Plant Quarantine Act

(Amendment) Regulations, 2025

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

Quarantine Act, the Minister responsible for agriculture, has made the

following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Various Citation and

Subsidiary Legislation under the Plant Quarantine Act (Amendment) scope.

Regulations, 2025.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Articles 1 and

3 and points 1 and 3 of the Annex of the Commission Implementing

Directive (EU) 2024/3010 of 29 November 2024 amending Council

Directives 2002/55/EC and 2002/57/EC, and Commission Directive

93/61/EEC as regards the listing of pests of plants on seeds and other

plant reproductive material.

PART I

AMENDMENTS TO THE VEGETABLE PROPAGATION

AND PLANTING MATERIAL REGULATIONS

This Part amends the Vegetable Propagation and Planting Amendments to

Material Regulations and shall be read and construed as one with the the

Propagation and

Vegetable Propagation and Planting Material Regulations, hereinafter Planting

Material

referred to in this Part as the "principal regulations".

Regulations.

In Schedule III to the principal regulations, immediately Amends

after the item "Potato spindle tuber viroid [PSTVD0]" under the heading Schedule

the principal

"Viruses, viroids, virus-like diseases and phytoplasmas" there shall be regulations.

added the following new item

"Tomato brown

Capsicum annuum L.,

0%".

rugose fruit virus

other than material belonging to

[ToBRFV]

a variety known to be resistant to

ToBRFV. Solanum lycopersicum

L. and hybrids thereof

PART II

AMENDMENTS TO THE SEEDS OF AGRICULTURAL PLANTS

AND VEGETABLES REGULATIONS

This Part amends the Seeds of Agricultural Plants and

Vegetables Regulations and shall be read and construed as one with the

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables Regulations, hereinafter

referred to in this Part as the "principal regulations".

Immediately after the item "Potato spindle tuber viroid

[PSTVD0]" under the heading "Viruses, viroids, virus-like diseases and

phytoplasmas" in Table 1.30 of Schedule III there shall be added the

following new item

"Tomato brown

Capsicum annuum L.,

0%".

rugose fruit virus

other than seeds belonging to a

[ToBRFV]

variety known to be resistant to

ToBRFV. Solanum lycopersicum

L. and hybrids thereof

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