STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS.

S.I. No. 462 of 1999.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MARKETING OF ORNAMENTAL PLANT PROPAGATING MATERIAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1999.

S.I. No. 462 of 1999.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (MARKETING OF ORNAMENTAL PLANT PROPAGATING MATERIAL AND ORNAMENTAL PLANTS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS, 1999.

I, JOE WALSH, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by Section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 ( No. 27 of 1972 ) and for the purpose of giving effect to Commission Directive 1999/66/EC of 28 June 1999⁽¹⁾ and Commission Directive 1999/68/EC of 28 June 1999⁽²⁾ hereby make the following Regulations:

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1999.

(2) The collective citation “European Communities (Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants) Regulations 1994 to 1999” shall include these Regulations.

2. In these Regulations “the Principal Regulations” means the European Communities (Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants) Regulations, 1994 ( S.I. No. 161 of 1994 ).

3. Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations is hereby amended by the substitution in paragraph (1) in the definition of “the Directive” for “and Commission Directive 98/56/EC of 20 July 1998” (inserted by the European Communities (Marketing of Ornamental Plant Propagating Material and Ornamental Plants) (Amendment) Regulations, 1999 ( S.I. No. 201 of 1999 )) of “, Commission Directive 98/56/EC of 20 July 1998, Commission Directive 1999/66/EC of 28 June 1999 and Commission Directive 1999/68/EC of 28 June 1999”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations implement the provisions of Commission Directive 1999/66/EC which sets out the requirements for labels, or other documents, made out by the supplier of propagating material of ornamental plants. The Regulations also implement the provisions of Commission Directive 1999/68/EC which lays down additional information which must be included in the lists of varieties of ornamental plants kept by suppliers.

⁽¹⁾ O.J. L164 of 30.6.99.

⁽²⁾ O.J. L172 of 8.7.99.