The Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (England) Regulations 2019

PART 1 General interpretation

1.  In this Schedule—

“Directive 93/85/EEC” means Council Directive 93/85/EEC on the control of potato ring rot(1);

“Directive 98/57/EC” means Council Directive 98/57/EC on the control of Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.(2);

“Directive 2007/33/EC” means Council Directive 2007/33/EC on the control of potato cyst nematodes(3);

“premises” includes any place, including any land, building, vehicle, vessel, aircraft, hovercraft, freight container, railway wagon, trailer or movable building or structure;

“potato” means any tuber or true seed or any other plant of Solanum tuberosum L. or other tuber-forming species of the genus Solanum L.;

“Potato brown rot” means either the disease of potatoes caused by Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al. or that bacterium, as the context requires;

“Potato ring rot” means either the disease of potatoes which is caused by the bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. spp. Sependonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthof) Davis et al. or that bacterium, as the context requires;

“Seed Potatoes Regulations” means the Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2015(4).

(1)

OJ No. L 259, 18.10.1993, p.1, as amended by Commission Directive 2006/56/EC (OJ No. L 182, 4.7.2006, p.1). It is repealed from 1st January 2022 (see Article 113(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 (OJ No. L 317, 23.11.2016, p.4)

(2)

OJ No. L 235, 21.8.1998, p.1, as amended by Commission Directive 2006/63/EC (OJ No. L 206, 27.7.2006, p.36). It is repealed from 1st January 2022 (see Article 113(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031).

(3)

OJ No. L 156, 16.6.2007, p.12. It is repealed from 1st January 2022 (see Article 113(2) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031).

(4)

S.I. 2015/1953.