Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002
| Year | 2002 |
2002 No. 927
PLANT HEALTH
The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002
Made 28th March 2002
Laid before Parliament 4th April 2002
Coming into force 26th April 2002
The Forestry Commissioners, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 2 and 3(1) to (4) of the Plant Health Act 19671as read with section 20 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 19722, hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 26th April 2002.
Amendment of the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993
2.—(1) The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 19933(“the Order”) shall be amended in accordance with this article.
(2) In article 2(1) of the Order—
(a)
(a) for the definition of “Directive 2000/29/EC”4there shall be substituted the following text:
“‘Directive 2000/29/EC’ means Council Directive 2000/29/ECof 8th May 2000 on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community as amended by Commission Directive 2001/33/EC5of 8th May 2001 amending certain annexes to Council Directive 2000/29/EC, and by Commission Directive 2002/28/EC6of 19th March 2002 amending certain annexes to Council Directive 2000/29/EC;”.
(3) In Schedule 5 (Restrictions on consignments of relevant material to member States), Part B, items 8 and 22 shall be deleted.
Frank Strang
Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993 so as to implement certain elements of Commission Directives 2002/29/EC(OJNo. L 77, 20.3.02, p.26) and 2002/28/EC(OJNo. L 77, 20.3.02, p.23) in Great Britain which are not implemented in other legislation. Directive 2002/29/ECamends the protected zones established under Council Directive 2000/29/EC(OJNo. L 169, 10.7.00, p.1) (“the principal Plant Health Directive”) and scheduled in the Annex to Commission Directive 2001/32/EC(OJNo. L 127, 9.5.01, p.38). Directive 2002/28/ECprovides for consequential amendments to certain Annexes of the principal Plant Health Directive.
The amendment to the protected zones implemented by this Order concerns the...
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