Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2007 c.3305

Plant Health (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2007 No. 3305 (W. 292)

Summary:	This Order amends the Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1643) so as to implement the instruments below: (a) Commission Decision 2007/365/EC on emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) (OJ No. L 139, 31.5.2007, p. 24); (b) Commission Decision 2007/433/EC on provisional emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Gibberella circinata Nirenberg & O'Donnell (OJ No. L 161, 22.6.2007, p. 66); (c) Commission Decision 2007/410/EC on measures to prevent the introduction into and spread within the Community of Potato spindle tuber viroid (OJ No. L 155, 15.6.2007, p. 71); (d) Commission Decision 2004/416/EC on temporary emergency measures in respect of certain citrus fruits originating in Argentina or Brazil (OJ No. L 151, 30.4.2004, p. 76), as amended by Commission Decision 2007/347/EC (OJ No. L 130, 22.5.2007, p. 46); and (e) Commission Directive 2007/41/EC amending certain Annexes to Council Directive 2000/29/EC on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community (OJ No. L 169, 29.6.2007, p. 51). This Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) and references to the Decisions listed in (a), (b) and (c) are to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time. Articles 3, 4 and 5 make various amendments to Schedules 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7 to the principal Order so as to apply the restrictions on the landing in and movement within Wales of certain plant material (described in each article) from third countries and other parts of the European Community and the requirements for phytosanitary certificates and plant passports to the plant material listed in order to prevent the introduction into and spread within Wales of, respectively, the following plant pests: Rhynchophorus ferrugineus (Olivier), Gibberella circinata Nirenberg & O'Donnell, Potato spindle tuber viroid. Article 6 amends Schedule 4 to the principal Order so as to apply special requirements in respect of certain citrus fruits originating in Brazil. Article 7 amends the definition of Directive 2000/29/EC so as to incorporate within it Commission Directive 2007/41/EC and adds Vitis L. to the list of plants in Part B of Schedule 7 to the principal Order requiring a plant passport if they are to be consigned to a protected zone in another part of the European Community.
Made Under:	European Communities Act 1972 (C. 68) - This Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references in the following Order to certain Decisions to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time. Plant Health Act 1967 (C. 8) - sections 2 and 3(1).
Amending:	Plant Health (Wales) Order 2006 (1643)

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