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STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


2007 No. 447

PLANT HEALTH

The Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

  Made 24th October 2007 
  Coming into operation 31st January 2008 

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development[1] in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 2[2], 3(1)[3], 3B[4], and 4(1)[5] of the Plant Health Act (Northern Ireland) 1967[6], makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as The Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 31st January 2008.

Amendments to the Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005
    
2. —(1) The Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005[7] is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).

    (2) In article 6 (movement of susceptible material originating in Northern Ireland and elsewhere in the European Community or Switzerland), in paragraph (2), for "from its place of production" substitute "within the European Community".

    (3) In article 15 (offences)—

    (4) For Schedule 1, substitute—




    (5) In the second column of Schedule 2—



Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on


24th October 2007.

L.S.


John Speers
A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 (S.R. 2005 No. 23) ("the Order") so as to implement Commission Decision 2007/201/EC amending Decision 2002/757/EC on provisional emergency phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Phytophthora ramorum Werres, De Cock & Man in ‘t Veld sp. Nov (O.J. No.L 90, 30.3.2007, P. 83) and to make other minor changes. The principal changes made are—

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


Notes:

[1] Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Art. 3(4)back

[2] As amended by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No 351 Art. 3 and Sch. 2; 1979 c. 2, s. 177 (1) and Sch. 4 Pt. II; and S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 15(2)back

[3] As amended by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No 351 Art. 3 and Sch. 2back

[4] Inserted by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 15(2)back

[5] As amended by S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1972 No 351 Art. 3 and Sch. 2 and S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 15(2)back

[6] 1967 c. 28 (N.I.)back

[7] S.R. 2005 No. 23 as amended by S.R. 2005 No. 265back



ISBN 978 0 337 97173 0


 © Crown copyright 2007

Prepared 31 October 2007


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