The Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020

• Citation: S.I. 2020/69 (W.)
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title and commencement

The title of these Regulations is the Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 and they come into force on 24 February 2020.

Section 2 Amendment of the Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2018

(1) The Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2018 are amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 6 insert—

Potatoes originating in Lebanon: fee

(6A)

(1) Where an inspector takes a sample of potatoes originating in Lebanon in order to ascertain whether, for the purposes of Article 4 of the Decision, those potatoes are infected with Clavibacter michiganensis subspecies (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Davis et al., the importer must pay a fee of £70.83 in respect of each lot sampled.

(2) In paragraph (1), “the Decision” means Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1614 authorising Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of potatoes, other than potatoes intended for planting, originating in the regions of Akkar and Bekaa of Lebanon .

(3) For Schedule 2 substitute—

Import inspection fees: reduced rates

“Third country in Europe” includes Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canary Islands, Faeroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia (only the following parts: Central Federal District (Tsentralny federalny okrug), Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug), Southern Federal District (Yuzhny federalny okrug), North Caucasian Federal District (Severo-Kavkazsky federalny okrug) and Volga Federal District (Privolzhsky federalny okrug), San Marino, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.