Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 12th November 2003.

Amendment of the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993

2.  The Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993(8) shall be amended in accordance with Articles 3 to 22.

3.  In Article 3(1) –

(a)for the definition of “Directive 2000/29/EC” there shall be substituted –

“Directive 2000/29/EC” means Council Directive 2000/29/EC(9) of 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 Directives 2001/33/EC(10) of 8th May 2001, 2002/28/EC(11) of 19th March 2002, 2002/36/EC(12) of 29th April 2002, 2003/22/EC(13) of 24th March 2003, and by 2003/47/EC(14) of 4th June 2003 amending certain annexes to Council Directive 2000/29/EC;”; and

(b)after the definition of “reforwarding phytosanitary certificate” there shall be inserted –

• “relevant International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPM) means ISPM No. 4 “Requirements for the Establishment of Pest Free Areas” February 1966 and ISPM No. 10 “Requirements for the Establishment of Pest Free Places of Production and Pest Free Production Sites” October 1999(15) prepared by the Secretariat of the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) established by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations;”.

4.  In Schedule 1, Part A, Section A (Insects, Mites and Nematodes at all stages of their development) Items 15, 16 and 18 shall be deleted.

5.  In Schedule 1, Part A, Section A (Insects, Mites and Nematodes at all stages of their development) after Item 22 there shall be inserted –

“22.1.  Naupactus leucoloma Boheman”.

6.  In Schedule 1, Part B, Section A (Insects, Mites and Nematodes at all stages of their development) after Item 2 there shall be inserted –

7.  In Schedule 1, Part B, Section B (Viruses and Virus-like Organisms) in Item 1, for the words in column (3) there shall be substituted –

• “DK, F (Brittany), IRL, P (Azores), FIN, S (with the exception of the District Council areas of Bromölla, Hässleholm, Kristianstad and Östra Göinge in the county of Skåne), UK (Northern Ireland)”.

8.  In Schedule 2, Part A, Section A (Insects, Mites and Nematodes at all stages of their development) after Item 23 there shall be inserted –

9.  In Schedule 2, Part A, Section C (Fungi), after Item 1 there shall be inserted –

10.  In Schedule 2, Part B, Section A (Insects, Mites and Nematodes at all stages of their development) at Item 5 for the words in column (4) there shall be substituted –

• “Greece, Portugal (Azores)”.(16).

11.  In Schedule 2, Part B, Section B, (Bacteria) at Item 2 for the words in column (4) there shall be substituted –

• “E, F (Corsica), IRL, I (Abruzzi; Apulia; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania; Emilia-Romagna: provinces of Forlí-Cesena, Parma, Piacenza and Rimini; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Lazio; Liguria; Lombardy; Marche; Molise; Piedmont; Sardinia; Sicily; Tuscany; Trentino-Alto Adige: autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento; Umbria; Valle d'Aosta; Veneto: except in the province of Rovigo the communes Rovigo, Polesella, Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine, Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo, Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo, Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po, Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara, Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d'Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province of Verona the communes Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago, Castagnaro, Ronco all'Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano, Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), and for A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria, Vienna), P, FIN, UK (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands)”.

12.  In Schedule 3, Part B, (Plants and plant products which may not be introduced into or kept within certain protected zones) for the words opposite Item 1 in column (3) there shall be substituted –

• “E, F (Corsica), IRL, I (Abruzzi; Apulia; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania; Emilia-Romagna: provinces of Forlí-Cesena, Parma, Piacenza and Rimini; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Lazio; Liguria; Lombardy; Marche; Molise; Piedmont; Sardinia; Sicily; Tuscany; Trentino-Alto Adige: autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento; Umbria; Valle d'Aosta; Veneto: except in the province of Rovigo the communes Rovigo, Polesella, Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine, Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo, Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo, Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po, Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara, Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d'Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province of Verona the communes Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago, Castagnaro, Ronco all'Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano, Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), and for A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria, Vienna), P, FIN, UK (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands)”.

13.  In Schedule 4, Part A, Section I (Plants, plant products and other objects originating outside the European Community) –

(a)after Item 6 there shall be inserted –

(b)for Items 43, 44, and 45 there shall be substituted –

(c)for Items 50 and 50A there shall be substituted –

(d)in Item 55, for the words in column (3) there shall be substituted –

• “Without prejudice to the provisions applicable to the plants listed in Schedule 3, Part A, at Items 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 12 and 13; and Schedule 3, Part B, at Item 1; and Schedule 4, Part A, Section 1 at Items 5, 6, 6A, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 46, 50, 52, 53, 54 and 60A, where appropriate, official statement that the plants are dormant and free from leaves.”;

(e)at Item 60A there shall be substituted –

(f)after Item 60A there shall be inserted –

(g)in Item 61, in column (3) the words “60 and 60A” shall be replaced with “60A, 60B and 60C”; and

(h)in Items 67A and 67B, in column (2) there shall be inserted “, South Africa” after the word “Pakistan”.

14.  In Schedule 4, Part A, Section II (Plants, plant products and other objects originating in the European Community) for Item 26 there shall be substituted –

15.  In Schedule 4, Part B (Conditions to be met before plants, plant products and other objects may be introduced into or moved within certain protected zones) –

(a)in Item 12, for the words in column (4) there shall be substituted –

• “Greece, Portugal (Azores)”(17);

(b)in Items 13, 17, 22 and 22A for the words in column (4) there shall be substituted –

• “DK, F (Brittany), IRL, P (Azores), FIN, S (with the exception of the District Council areas of Bromölla, Hässleholm, Kristianstad and Östra Göinge in the county of Skåne), UK (Northern Ireland)”; and

(c)for Item 14 there shall be substituted –

(d)in Item 15, for the words in column (4) opposite paragraph (a) there shall be substituted –

• “E, F (Corsica), IRL, I (Abruzzi; Apulia; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania; Emilia-Romagna: provinces of Forlí-Cesena, Parma, Piacenza and Rimini; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Lazio; Liguria; Lombardy; Marche; Molise; Piedmont; Sardinia; Sicily; Tuscany; Trentino-Alto Adige: autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento; Umbria; Valle d'Aosta; Veneto: except in the province of Rovigo the communes Rovigo, Polesella, Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine, Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo, Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo, Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po, Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara, Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d'Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province of Verona the communes Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago, Castagnaro, Ronco all'Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano, Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), and for A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria, Vienna), P, FIN, UK (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands)”.

(e)for Item 16 there shall be substituted –

(f)for Item 18 there shall be substituted –

(g)Items 19 and 20 shall be deleted;

(h)for Item 20 there shall be inserted –

(i)for Item 21 there shall be substituted –

(j)in Item 25, for the words in columns (2) and (3) there shall be substituted –

16.  In Schedule 5, Part A, Section I (Plants, plant products and other objects which are potential carriers of pests of relevance for the entire European Community and which must be accompanied by a plant passport) in Item 2(a), after the words “Verbena L.” there shall be inserted –

• “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”.

17.  In Schedule 5, Part A, Section II (Plants, plant products and other objects which are potential carriers of pests of relevance for certain protected zones and which must be accompanied by a plant passport valid for the appropriate zone when introduced into or moved within that zone) –

(a)for Item 1.(f) there shall be substituted –

“1.—(f) Plants of Beta vulgaris L., intended for industrial processing”;

(b)for Item 1.(g) there shall be substituted –

“1.—(g) Soil from beet and unsterilised waste from beet (Beta vulgaris L.)”; and

(c)for Item 2.(a) there shall be substituted –

“2.—(a) Plants of Begonia L., intended for planting, other than corms, seeds, tubers, and plants of Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd., Ficus L., and Hibiscus L., intended for planting other than seeds”.

18.  In Schedule 5, Part B, Section I (Plants, plant products and other objects which are potential carriers of pests of relevance for the entire European Community) –

(a)in Items 1 and 6 there shall be inserted “, South Africa)” after the word “Pakistan”;

(b)in Item 2, in place of parts (a), (b), (c) and (d), there shall be substituted –

• “2.  Castanea Mill., Dendranthema (DC) Des. Moul., Dianthus L., Gypsophila L., Pelargonium 1'Herit, ex Ait, Phoenix spp., Populus L., Quercus L., Solidago L. and cut flowers of Orchidaceae,

• conifers (Coniferales),

• Acer saccharum Marsh., originating in North American countries,

• Prunus L., originating in non-European countries,

• cut flowers of Aster spp., Eryngium L., Hypericum L., Lisianthus L., Rosa L., and Trachelium L., originating in non-European countries,

• leafy vegetables of Apium graveolens L. and Ocimum L.”;

(c)in Item 3(a), after “Poncirus Raf.,” there shall be inserted “Momordica L. and Solanum melongena L.”; and

(d)for Item 5(b) there shall be substituted –

• “Soil and growing medium, attached to or associated with plants, consisting in whole or in part of material specified in (a) or consisting in part of any solid inorganic substance, intended to sustain vitality of the plants originating in:

  • Turkey,

  • Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine,

  • non-European countries, other than Algeria, Eygpt, Israel, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia”.

19.  In Schedule 5, Part B, Section II (Plants, plant products and other objects which are potential carriers of pests of relevance for certain protected zones) –

(a)for paragraph 1 there shall be substituted –

“1.  Plants of Beta vulgaris L., intended for industrial processing”; and

(b)for paragraph 2 there shall be substituted –

“2.  Soil from beet and unsterilised waste from beet (Beta vulgaris L.)”.

20.  In Schedule 8, Part A (Insects, mites and nematodes at all stages of their development) –

(a)in Item 6, for the words in column (3) there shall be substituted –

• “Greece, Portugal (Azores)”; and

(b)after Item 12 there shall be inserted –

21.  In Schedule 8, Part B (Bacteria), in Item 2 for the words in column (3) there shall be substituted –

• “E, F (Corsica), IRL, I (Abruzzi; Apulia; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania; Emilia-Romagna: provinces of Forlí-Cesena, Parma, Piacenza and Rimini; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Lazio; Liguria; Lombardy; Marche; Molise; Piedmont; Sardinia; Sicily; Tuscany; Trentino-Alto Adige: autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento; Umbria; Valle d'Aosta; Veneto: except in the province of Rovigo the communes Rovigo, Polesella, Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine, Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo, Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo, Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po, Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara, Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d'Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province of Verona the communes Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago, Castagnaro, Ronco all'Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano, Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), and for A (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria, Vienna), P, FIN, UK (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands)”.

22.  In Schedule 8, Part D (Virus and virus-like organisms), in Item 1 for the words in column (3) there shall be substituted –

• “DK, F (Brittany), IRL, P (Azores), FIN, S (with the exception of the District Council areas of Bromölla, Hässleholm, Kristianstad and Östra Göinge in the county of Skåne), UK (Northern Ireland)”.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

1.  This Order amends the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 1993 so as to implement:

• Commission Directives 2002/36/EC (O.J. No. L116, 3.5.02, p. 16), and 2003/22/EC (O.J. No. L78, 25.3.03, p. 10) which amend various Annexes to Council Directive 2000/29/EC (O.J. No. L169, 10.7.00, p. 1) on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community; and

• Commission Directive 2003/21/EC (O.J. No. L78, 25.3.03, p. 8) which amends some protective zones exposed to particular plant health risks in the Community in Commission Directive 2001/32/EC (O.J. No. L127, 9.5.01, p. 38).

2.  The Order also takes into account amendments required by Directives 2003/46/EC and 2003/47/EC (O.J. No. L138, 5.6.03, p. 45 and 47), which correct clerical errors in Directives 2002/36/EC and 2003/21/EC.

3.  The principal changes introduced by this Order are:

(a)addition of Naupactus leucoloma (Article 5) and Anisogramma anomala (Article 9) to the list of quarantine plant pests. It introduces specific measures for the import of Corylus from Canada and the United States (Article 13(a));

(b)restriction of the quarantine provisions on Liriomyza bryoniae to the Protected Zones of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (Articles 4, 6, and 20(b));

(c)restriction of the quarantine provisions on Liriomyza huidbobrensis and Liriomyza trifolii to a list of host plants (Articles 4 and 8);

(d)extension of plant passport and phytosanitary certificate requirements for certain plants or plant products in respect of Bemisia tabaci, Liriomyza sativae, Amauromyza maculosa, Liriomyza huidobrensis, Liriomyza trifolii and Thrips palmi (Articles 13(b) to (g), 14, 15(f), 16, 17(c), 18(b), (c) and (d));

(e)amendment of the provisions against Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (Articles 15(c), (e), and (g) to (j), 17(a) and (b), and 19(a) and (b));

(f)addition of South Africa to the list of countries where Tilletia indica is known to occur (Articles 13(h) and 18(a));

(g)removal of areas in Sweden from the Protected Zones for Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (Articles 7, 15(c), (e), and (g) to (j), and 22) and removal of areas in Italy from the Protected Zone for Erwinia amylovora (Articles 11, 12 and 15(d) and 21);

(h)restriction of the Protected Zone for Gonipterus scutellatus to Greece and Portugal (Azores) (Articles 10, 15(a) and 20(a)); and

(i)inclusion of the definition of relevant international Standards for Phytosanitary Measures and details of their availability (Article 3(b)).