The Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2009

Made: 9th November 2009

Laid before Parliament: 16th November 2009

Coming into force: 21st December 2009

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Title and commencement

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Amendments

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Signed

Official Seal of the Forestry Commissioners

Wilma Harper — Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners — 2009-11-09

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Plant Health (Forestry) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2517) (“the principal Order”) so as to implement Commission Directive 2009/118/EC amending Annexes II to V 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 239, 10.09.2009, p 51).

Article 2 (2) makes the references to Council Directive 2000/29 in the principal Order ambulatory. Article 2(3) amends the entry for countries of origin contained in item 8 of Schedule 3 to the principal Order and article 2(4) amends the description of relevant material contained in item 30 of Part A of Schedule 4 to the principal Order.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 8. Sections 2(1) and 3(1) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Schedule 4, paragraph 8. The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3 are conferred on a “competent authority”, which is defined in section 1(2), as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests, as the Forestry Commissioners.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51).

[^f00003]: OJ No L 169, 10.7.2000, p1.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2005/2517 as amended by S.I. 2006/2696, 2008/644 and 2009/594.

Editorial notes

[^key-168c45713a42b44c1fb3d55b89bf2116]: Order revoked (S.) (14.12.2019) by The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/421), reg. 1(1), sch. 6; and (E.) (14.1.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1517), reg. 1, Sch. 6; and (W.) (27.3.2020) by The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/206), reg. 1, Sch. 6