CONTROL OF CARNATION LEAF ROLLERS REGULATIONS *

CONTROL OF CARNATION LEAF ROLLERS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 433.06

CONTROL OF CARNATION LEAF ROLLERS

REGULATIONS *

1st April, 2004

LEGAL NOTICE 128 of 2004.

The title of these regulations is the Control of Carnation

Leaf Rollers Regulations.

The scope of these regulations is to lay down the minimum

measures to be taken to control carnation leaf rollers and to prevent

them from spreading.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires

"carnation leaf roller" means the Mediterranean carnation leaf

roller (Cacoecimorpha pronubana Hb) and the South African

carnation leaf-roller (Epichoristodes acerbella (Walk.) Diak.);

"the Act" means the Plant Quarantine Act;

"the Commission" means the Commission of the European

Community;

"the Department" means the Plant Health Department.

(1) Carnations (Dianthus L.) shall be put into circulation

only if they are not contaminated by carnation leaf rollers.

(2) Carnation cultures contaminated by carnation leaf rollers

must be treated in such a manner, to the satisfaction of the Director,

that the carnations obtained from them are no longer contaminated

at the time when they are put into circulation.

(3) Notwithstanding subregulation (1), cut carnation flowers

slightly contaminated by carnation leaf rollers may be put into

circulation from the 16th October to the 30th April of each year.

The holding of carnation leaf rollers is hereby prohibited.

(1) The Director may authorise exemptions from the

measures referred to in these regulations for scientific purposes,

tests and selection work.

(2) The Director, notwithstanding regulation 4, may authorise

the circulation of cut carnation flowers slightly contaminated by

carnation leaf rollers from the 1st May to the 15th October of each

year.

(3) The Director shall ensure that the authorisations referred to

in subregulations (1) and (2) are granted only where adequate

controls guarantee that they do not prejudice the control of

carnation leaf rollers and create no risk of the spread of these

*These Regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 238 of 2022.

CONTROL OF CARNATION LEAF ROLLERS

harmful organisms, and as long as the requirements laid down

under the Act are met.

(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of these regulations the

Director may adopt such additional or stricter provisions as may be

required to control carnation leaf rollers or to prevent them from

spreading insofar as such provisions are necessary for such control

or prevention.