Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

B 649 L.N. 87 of 2020 PLANT QUARANTINE ACT (CAP. 433) Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment) 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: Citation and scope. S.L. 433.08. 1. (1) The title of these regulations is Fruit Trees Propagation Material (Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and they shall be read and construed as one with the Fruit Trees Propagation Material Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations". (2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission Implementing Decision 2019/120 amending Council Directive 2008/ 90/EC as regards the extension of the derogation relating to import conditions for fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production from third countries. Substitutes regulation 4 of the principal regulations. 2. Regulation 4 of the principal regulations shall be substituted by the following: "4. (1) Professional operators introducing fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production from another EU Member State shall declare the introduction of such material forty-eight (48) hours prior to its arrival in Malta, through the Supplementary Declaration System of Malta (Intrastat), of each lot received by them. (2) The non-professional final users being supplied with fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production from another EU Member State shall also inform the Directorate by means of the EU Plant Notification Form (For General Public) available on the Directorate’s website, forty eight (48) hours prior to the arrival of the plant material in Malta of each lot received by them. (3) The professional operators and the non-professional final users being supplied with fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production from a third country shall also inform the Directorate by means of the Third Countries Notification Form available on the Directorate’s website forty eight hours (48) prior to the arrival, of the plant material in Malta Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 20,370, 20 ta’ Marzu, 2020 Taqsima B VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA B 650 of each lot received by them.". Amends regulation 16 of the principal regulations. 3. In sub-regulation (3) of regulation 16 of the principal regulations, the words "31st December, 2018", shall be substituted by the words "31st December, 2022". 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 €0.09 VERŻJONI ELETTRONIKA