Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2020 (L.N. 144 of 2020)

B 917 Verżjoni Elettronika Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 20,387, 13 ta’ April, 2020 Taqsima B ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– L.N. 144 of 2020 PLANT QUARANTINE ACT (CAP. 433) Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment No. 2) 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. (1) The title of these regulations is Fruit Trees Citation and Propagation Material (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2020 and they scope. shall be read and construed as one with the Fruit Trees Propagation S.L. 433.08. Material Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations". (2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1813 amending Implementing Directive 2014/96/EU on the requirements for the labelling, sealing and packaging of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production, falling within the scope of Council Directive 2008/90/EC as regards the colour of the label for certified categories of propagating material and fruit plants and the content of the supplier’s document. 2. Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends Schedule II to follows: the principal regulations. (a) item (4) of Section I thereof, shall be substituted by the following: "(4) The colour of the label shall be: (a) white with a diagonal violet stripe for pre- basic material; (b) white for basic material; (c) blue for certified material."; and (b) Section IV thereof, shall be substituted by the following: "IV. Supplier’s document for CAC material Verżjoni Elettronika B 918 (1) The responsible official body shall ensure that CAC material is marketed with a document prepared by the supplier in compliance with items (2), (3) and (4) hereunder, hereinafter "the supplier’s document". The responsible official body shall ensure that the supplier’s document does not resemble the accompanying document referred to in Section I or an accompanying document referred to in Section II, so as to avoid any possible confusion between those two documents. (2) The supplier’s document shall contain at least the following information: (a) the indication "EU rules and standards"; (b) the name of the Member State where the document has been prepared, or the respective code; (c) the responsible official body or the respective code; (d) the name of the supplier or its registration number, or code issued by the responsible official body; (e) the individual serial number, week number or batch number; (f) the botanical name; (g) the indication "CAC material"; (h) the denomination of the variety and, where appropriate, the clone. In the case of rootstocks not belonging to a variety: the name of the species or the interspecific hybrid concerned. For grafted fruit plants, such information shall be given for the rootstock and the top-graft. For varieties for which an application for official registration or for a plant variety right is pending, such information shall indicate: "proposed denomination" and "application pending"; and

Verżjoni Elettronika B 919 (i) the date of issue of the document. (3) Where the supplier’s document is affixed to the CAC material, the colour of the supplier’s document shall be yellow. (4) The supplier’s document shall be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the Union, clearly visible and legible.". Verżjoni Elettronika _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment tal-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta Mitbugħ fl-Istamperija tal-Gvern fuq karta FSC — Printed at the Government Printing Press on FSC certified paper Prezz/Price €0.18