The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 2007

Made: 6th December 2007

Laid before Parliament: 10th December 2007

Coming into force: 31st December 2007

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Title and commencement

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Amendments to the Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2004

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Signed

The Official Seal of the Forestry Commissioners

Wilma Harper — Secretary to the Forestry Commissioners — 6th December 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3213) (“the Order”) so as to implement Commission Decision 2007/201/EC amending Decision 2002/757/EC on provisional emergency phytosanitary measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Community of Phytophthora ramorum Werres, De Cock & Man in ‘t Veld sp.nov (O.J. No. L 90, 30.3.2007, p. 83). The principal change is to amend the description of susceptible material to which the Order applies (article 2(2) and (4)).

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1967 c. 8; sections 2(1) and 3(1) and (2) were amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4(1) and Schedule 4, paragraph 8; section 3(4) was substituted by section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48). Section 1(2) of the Plant Health Act 1967 defines “competent authorities” for the purposes of the Act.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2004/3213.

[^f00003]: Sections 49 and 50 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c.2) provide respectively for forfeiture of goods improperly imported and penalties for improper importation of goods.

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Editorial notes

[^key-d0f051d6328f7947258bf223e49a29a7]: Order revoked (E.S.) (1.1.2017) by The Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) (England and Scotland) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1167), arts. 1, 17(1)(b) (with art. 17(2)) Order revoked (W.) (28.3.2019) by The Plant Health (Forestry) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/498), arts. 1(1), 25(1)(b)