The Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) (England and Scotland) Order 2017

Made: 29th November 2017

Laid before Parliament: 1st December 2017

Coming into force: 1st January 2018

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Citation, commencement and application

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Amendment of the Plant Health (Forestry) Order 2005

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Article 2 (general interpretation)

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New article 42A

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Article 43 (offences)

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Article 44 (penalties)

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Schedule 1 (tree pests which shall not be landed in or spread within Great Britain)

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Schedule 1A (tree pests which shall not be landed in or spread within a protected zone which is limited in relation to England and Scotland to part of that area)

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Schedule 2 (prohibitions on the landing in and movement within Great Britain of infected relevant material)

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Schedule 4 (restrictions on the landing in and movement within Great Britain of relevant material)

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Schedule 5 (relevant material from a third country for which a phytosanitary certificate may be required)

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Schedule 6 (prohibitions on the landing in and movement within Great Britain of relevant material without a plant passport)

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Schedule 7 (prohibitions on the consignment of relevant material to another part of the European Union without a plant passport)

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Schedule 8 (Swiss plant passports)

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Signed

The Official Seal of the Forestry Commissioners

Stephen Bennett — Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners — 2017-11-29

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”) in relation to England and Scotland to implement—

• (a) Decision No 1/2015 of the Joint Committee on Agriculture concerning the amendment to Appendices 1, 2 and 4 to Annex 4 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products (OJ No L 27, 1.2.2017, p.155)(seearticle14oftheOrder);

• (b) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/204 authorising Member States to provide for a temporary derogation from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of ash wood originating or processed in the United States of America, and repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2416 recognising certain areas of the United States of America as being free from Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (OJ No L 32, 7.2. 2017, p. 35) (see articles 3(a)(ii) and 10(1)(b), (f) and (g) of the Order);

• (a) Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2017/1279 amending Annexes I 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 164, 15.7.2017, p. 33) (see articles 3(a)(i) and (iii) and 7 to 13 of the Order).

Article 3 (b) of the Order makes a clarification to article 2(3A) of the principal Order.

Articles 4 to 6 provide for an information gateway between HMRC and the Forestry Commissioners for the purposes of the principal Order and for an offence (in relation to England and Scotland) for the wrongful disclosure of information.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7).

[^f00002]: 1967 c. 8; section 2 was amended by paragraph 8(2)(a) of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), Part 1 of the table in paragraph 12 of Schedule 4 to the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2) and S.I. 1990/2371, 2011/1043. Section 3(1) was amended by paragraph 8(2)(a) and (b) of Schedule 4 to the European Communities Act 1972 and S.I. 2011/1043. The powers conferred by sections 2 and 3(1) are conferred on a “competent authority”, which is defined in section 1(2). Section 1(2) provides that the Forestry Commissioners are the competent authority for England and Scotland as regards the protection of forest trees and timber from attack by pests.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/266, amended by S.I. 2011/1043, 2013/755; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

[^f00004]: S.I. 2005/2517; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2006/2696, 2008/644, 2011/1043, 2013/755, 2691, 2014/2420, 2016/1167.

[^f00005]: OJ No L 333, 19.12.2015, p. 128.

[^f00006]: The latest published version is available from the IPPC Secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, AGDI, Viale Delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome, Italy and at https://www.ippc.int/en/core-activities/standards-setting/ispms/.

[^f00007]: OJ No L 114, 30.4.2002, p. 132, as last amended by Decision No 1/2017 of the Joint Committee on Agriculture (OJ No L 171, 4.7.2017, p. 185).

Editorial notes