2019 No. 527

Wildlife

The Invasive Alien Species (Enforcement and Permitting) Order 2019

Made

Laid before Parliament

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

Coming into force

The Secretary of State and Welsh Ministers make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 (“the 1972 Act”)1, and by section 22(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 19812.

The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the 1972 Act in relation to the environment3, and the Welsh Ministers have been designated for those purposes in relation to the prevention and remedy of environmental damage4.

This Order makes provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the 1972 Act and it appears to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references to the list of invasive alien species of Union concern adopted by the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) No. 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species5 to be construed as references to that list as amended from time to time.