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The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2022

W.S.I. 2022/1333 · Made 13 December 2022

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Exiting The European Union, Wales

Seeds, Wales

Sift requirements satisfied 12 December 2022

Made 13 December 2022

Laid before Senedd Cymru 15 December 2022

Coming into force 31 December 2022

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2018 c. 16. See section 20(1) for the definition of “devolved authority”.

Contents

  1. 1Title and commencement
  2. 2The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012
  3. 3The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2017
  4. 4Revocation
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Title and commencement

The title of these Regulations is the Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 and they come into force on 31 December 2022.

2The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012

(1)

The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In Schedule 2—

(a)

in paragraph A1 (interpretation)—

(i)

in the definition of “protected zone quarantine pest”, for ““protected zone quarantine pest” (“pla cwarantin parth gwarchodedig”)” substitute ““PFA quarantine pest” (“pla cwarantin ardal sy’n rhydd rhag plâu”)”;

(ii)

in the definition of “RNQP”, for “Union” substitute “GB”;

(iii)

in the definition of “Union quarantine pest”, for ““Union quarantine pest” (“pla cwarantin yr Undeb”)” substitute ““GB quarantine pest” (“pla cwarantin Prydain Fawr”)”.

(b)

in paragraphs 15, 28, 42 and 50 (crop and seed requirements), in each place they occur—

(i)

for “protected zone” substitute “PFA”;

(ii)

for “Union” substitute “GB”.

3The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2017

(1)

The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2017f1 are amended as follows.

(2)

In regulation 2 (interpretation), in the definition of “RNQP”, for “Union” substitute “GB”.

4Revocation

The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 are revokedf1.

Signature

Lesley Griffiths

Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers

13 December 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

These Regulations replace The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations. These Regulations make minor amendments to The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012 and The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2017.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.