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Plant Health

Made 28th January 2009

Coming into operation 1st March 2009

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development^f1 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act (1972) ^f2.

It is a Department designated ^f3 for the purposes of section 2(2) of that Act ^f4 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of that Act and it appears to the Department that it is expedient for a reference to Commission Decision 2004/4/EC^f5 to be construed as a reference to that Decision as amended from time to time.

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Footnotes

f1: Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I.1), Article 3(4)
f2: Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51).
f3: S.I. 2000/2812
f4: 1972 c.68
f5: O.J. No. L 2, 6.1.2004, p.50 (Pseudomonas solanacearum (Smith) Smith is now known as Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith) Yabuuchi et al.).