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Plant Quarantine Act (Cap. 433) Plant Quarantine (Harmful Organisms) Amendment Regulations, 2009 (Ln 33 Of 2009 )

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT (CAP. 433)Plant Quarantine (Harmful Organisms) AmendmentRegulations, 2009

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 32 of the Plant Quarantine Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs has made the following rules:-

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission Directive 2008/109/EC of 28 November, 2008 amending Directive 2000/29/EC.

(a) for point 2 thereof there shall be substituted the following:

Title and scope.

L.N. 97 of 2004

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Amends Schedule IV to the principal regulations.

“2. Wood packaging material, in the form of packing cases, boxes, crates, drums and similar packings, pallets, box pallets and other load boards, pallet collars, actually in use in the transport of objects of all kinds, except raw wood of 6 mm thickness or less, and processed wood produced by glue, heat and pressure, or a combination thereof, coming from third countries, except Switzerland.
The wood packaging material shall:
— be free from bark with the exception of any number of individual pieces of
bark if they are either less than 3 cm in width (regardless of the length) or, if
greater than 3 cm in width, of not more than 50 cm2 in area, and
— be subject to one of the approved treatments as specified in Annex I to
FAO International Standard for
Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on

Guidelines for regulating wood packaging material in international trade, and

— display a mark as specified in Annex II
to FAO International Standard for

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Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on Guidelines for regulating wood packaging material in international trade, indicating that the wood packaging material has been subjected to an approved phytosanitary treatment.
The first indent shall only apply from 1
July, 2009.”; and
(b) for point 8 thereof there shall be substituted the following:
“ 8. Wood used to wedge or support non- wood cargo, including that which has not kept its natural round surface, except raw wood of 6 mm thickness or less and processed wood produced by glue, heat and pressure, or a combination thereof, coming from third countries, except Switzerland.
The wood shall:
— be free from bark with the exception of any number of individual pieces of
bark if they are either less than 3 cm in width (regardless of the length) or, if
greater than 3 cm in width, of not more than 50 cm2 in area, and
— be subject to one of the approved treatments as specified in Annex I to
FAO International Standard for
Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on

Guidelines for regulating wood packaging material in international trade, and

— display a mark as specified in Annex II
to FAO International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures No 15 on Guidelines for regulating wood packaging material in international trade, indicating that the wood has been subjected to an approved phytosanitary treatment.
The first indent shall only apply from 1
July, 2009.”.

Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment tal-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta

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