The Plant Health (Scotland) Amendment Order 2018

Amendment of schedule 7

15.—(1) In schedule 7 (prohibitions on the consignment of relevant material to another part of the European Union without a plant passport), in Part A (relevant material which may only be consigned to another part of the European Union if accompanied by a plant passport)—

(a) in paragraph 1 omit “Castanea Mill.,”(1);

(b) in paragraph 3b(2) for both occurrences of “Epitrix similaris (Gentner)” substitute “Epitrix papa sp. n.”;

(c) for paragraph 4(3) substitute—

“4.   Plants, other than fruits or seeds, of Choisya Kunth, Fortunella Swingle, Poncirus Raf., Casimiroa La Llave, Clausena Burm. f., Murraya J. Koenig ex L., Vepris Comm., Zanthoxylum L. or Vitis L..”;

(d) for paragraph 7(a), substitute—

“(a) plants intended for planting, other than seeds, of the genera Abies Mill., Apium graveolens L., Argyranthemum spp., Asparagus officinalis L., Aster spp., Brassica spp., Castanea Mill., Cucumis spp., Dendranthema (DC.) Des Moul., Dianthus L. and hybrids, Exacum spp., Fragaria L., Gerbera Cass., Gypsophila L., all varieties of New Guinea hybrids of Impatiens L., Lactuca spp., Larix Mill., Leucanthemum L., Lupinus L., Pelargonium l’Hérit. ex Ait., Picea A. Dietr., Pinus L., Platanus L., Populus L., Prunus laurocerasus L., Prunus lusitanica L., Pseudotsuga Carr., Quercus L., Rubus L., Spinacia L., Tanacetum L., Tsuga Carr., Ulmus L., Verbena L. and other plants of herbaceous species, other than plants of the family Gramineae, intended for planting, and other than bulbs, corms, rhizomes, seeds and tubers”; and

(e) in paragraph 12(4)—

(i) at the end of sub-paragraph (1)(a) omit “and”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (1)(b) for “demarcated area.” substitute “demarcated area; and”;

(iii) after sub-paragraph (1)(b) insert—

“(c) pre-basic mother plants or pre-basic material which belong to the species Juglans regia L., Olea europaea L., Prunus amygdalus Batsch, P. amygdalus × P. persica, P. armeniaca L., P. avium (L.) L., P. cerasus L., P. domestica L., P. domestica × P. salicina, P. dulcis (Mill.) D.A. Webb, P. persica (L.) Batsch, or P. salicina Lindley which have been grown outside such a demarcated area and spent at least part of their life outside insect proof facilities.”; and

(iv) for sub-paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) In this paragraph—

“host plants” has the meaning given to it by Article 1(b) of Decision (EU) 2015/789;

“pre-basic material” has the meaning given to it by Article 2(5) of Council Directive 2008/90/EC on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production; and

“pre-basic mother plants” has the meaning given to it by Article 1(3) of Commission Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU implementing Council Directive 2008/90/EC as regards specific requirements for the genus and species of fruit plants referred to in Annex I thereto, specific requirements to be met by suppliers and detailed rules concerning official inspections.”.

(2) In schedule 7, in Part B (relevant material which may only be consigned to a protected zone in another part of the European Union if accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for that protected zone)—

(a) for paragraph 2(5) substitute—

“2.   Plants, other than seeds, of Beta vulgaris L., Platanus L., Populus L., Prunus L., Quercus spp., other than Quercus suber, or Ulmus L., intended for planting.”;

(b) after paragraph 3 insert—

“3A.   Plants of Palmae, intended for planting, having a diameter of the stem at the base of over 5 centimetres and belonging to the following taxa: Areca catechu L., Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr., Bismarckia Hildebr. & H. Wendl., Borassus flabellifer L., Brahea Mart., Butia Becc., Calamus merrillii Becc., Caryota maxima Blume, Caryota cumingii Lodd. ex Mart., Chamaerops L., Cocos nucifera L., Copernicia Mart., Corypha utan Lam., Elaeis guineenis Jacq., Howea forsteriana Becc., Jubae Kunth, Livistona R. Br., Metroxylon sagu Rottb., Phoenix L., Pritchardia Seem. & H. Wendl., Ravenea rivularis Jum. & H. Perrier, Roystonea regia (Kunth) O.F. Cook, Sabal Adans., Syagrus Mart., Trachycarpus H. Wendl., Trithrinax Mart. or Washingtonia Raf.”; and

(c) for paragraph 10(b) substitute—

“(b) plants, other than seeds, of Dipladenia A.DC., Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd., Ficus L., Hibiscus L., Mandevilla Lindl. or Nerium oleander L., intended for planting.”.

(1)

The reference to Castanea Mill was inserted by S.S.I. 2006/474 to implement Commission Decision 2006/464/EC on provisional emergency measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Dryocosmus kuriphilus Yasumatsu (OJ L 183, 5.7.06, p.29), which has now been repealed.

(2)

Paragraph 3b was inserted by S.S.I. 2012/266 and was substituted by S.S.I. 2013/187.

(3)

Paragraph 4 was substituted by S.S.I. 2015/10.

(4)

Paragraph 12 was substituted by S.S.I 2016/83.

(5)

Paragraph 2 was substituted by S.S.I 2015/10.