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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2007 No. 3013

PLANT HEALTH, ENGLAND

The Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007

  Made 22nd October 2007 
  Laid before Parliament 25th October 2007 
  Coming into force 15th November 2007 

The Secretary of State, with the consent of the Treasury, makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 56(1) of the Finance Act 1973[1]:

Title and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (England) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2007 and come into force—

Amendments to the Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (England) Regulations 2006
     2. —(1) The Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (England) Regulations 2006[2] are amended as follows.

    (2) For regulation 3, substitute—

    (3) For Schedule 2, substitute—




Jeff Rooker
Minister of State Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

9th October 2007



We consent,


Alan Campbell

Frank Roy
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

22nd October 2007


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Plant Health (Import Inspection Fees) (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1879) ("the principal Regulations"). The principal Regulations implement Article 13d of Council Directive 2000/29/EC (OJ No. L 169, 10.7.00, p. 1), which requires member States to charge fees to cover the costs occasioned by the documentary checks, identity checks and plant health checks of certain imports of plants, plant products and other objects from third countries.

These Regulations: (a) extend the application of the principal Regulations to consignments consisting of goods in transit within the European Community in respect of which the Secretary of State has agreed with the official body of point of entry for those goods, in accordance with the Plant Health (England) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2530), to be responsible for certain matters; and (b) substitute a new Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations, to give effect to the latest agreed reduced rates for inspections of certain material. (Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations includes provision for reduced rates for certain plants and plant products agreed under the procedure provided for in Articles 13d(2) and 18(2) of the Directive.) The changes to the fees made by these Regulations, which are set at a proportion of the standard fee (described in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations) corresponding to the rate of inspection, are based on the agreed inspection rates set out below:

Genus Country of origin Previous rate of inspection Initial fee(¹) New rate of inspection Initial fee, specified in Schedule 2
Cut Flowers
Aster Zimbabwe 50% £6.62 100% (²) –
Dianthus Israel 25% £3.31 35% £4.63
Dianthus Morocco 50% £6.62 100% –
Rosa Ecuador 5% £0.66 3% £0.40
Rosa Ethiopia 25% £3.31 5% £0.66
Rosa Israel 10% £1.32 100% –
Rosa Kenya 1% £0.13 5% £0.66
Rosa Tanzania 25% £3.31 15% £1.98
Rosa Uganda 5% £0.66 10% £1.32
Rosa Zimbabwe 25% £3.31 50% £6.62
Fruit
Fortunella Israel 50% £6.62 100% –
Fortunella South Africa 75% £9.93 100% –
Malus USA 15% £1.98 25% £3.31
Mangifera Brazil 10% £1.32 5% £0.66
Passiflora South Africa 75% £9.93 50% £6.62
Prunus Argentina 15% £1.98 25% £3.31
Prunus Chile 10% £1.32 15% £1.98
Prunus Turkey 15% £1.98 10% £1.32
Prunus USA 35% £4.63 50% £6.62
Pyrus Argentina 15% £1.98 25% £3.31
Pyrus Chile 25% £3.31 35% £4.63
Pyrus South Africa 10% £1.32 15% £1.98
Citrus Israel 15% £1.98 25% £3.31
Citrus Peru 75% £9.93 25% £3.31
Citrus Turkey 15% £1.98 5% £0.66
Citrus USA 15% £1.98 10% £1.32
Citrus Zimbabwe 75% £9.93 100% –
Vegetables
Solanum melongena Turkey 75% £9.93 25% £3.31

(¹) Initial fee per consignment for cut flowers (up to 20,000 in number) and fruit and vegetables (up to 25,000 kg in weight). Corresponding fees are set in the Regulations for additional quantities, maximum price per consignment and non-daytime working hours.

(²) Consignments subject to an inspection rate of 100% are excluded from the reduced rate inspection scheme and are subject to the import inspection fees specified in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations.

The regulatory impact assessment which was prepared in respect of the predecessor to the principal Regulations (S.I. 2005/906) foresaw changes to the fees for plant health import inspections to which these Regulations apply. This was placed in the Library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from Plant Health Division, Defra, Foss House, Kings Pool, Peasholme Green, York YO1 7PX.

Notes:

 [1] 1973 c. 51.back

[2] S.I. 2006/1879, amended by S.I. 2007/788.back

[3] S.I 2005/2530, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.back


ISBN 978 0 11 078891 3


 © Crown copyright 2007

Prepared 29 October 2007

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