# The Plant Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (revoked)

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Statutory Instruments

# 2013 No. 3050

Plant Health, England

# The Plant Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013

Made

4th December 2013

Laid before Parliament

9th December 2013

Coming into force

1st January 2014

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

## Citation and commencementU.K.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st                     January 2014.                  

## Amendment of the Plant Health (Fees) (England) Regulations 2013U.K.

2.  The Plant Health (Fees) (England) Regulations 2013(2) are amended in accordance with these Regulations.                  

## Amendment of Schedule 1U.K.

3.  In Schedule 1, in column 3 of the entry relating to “Soil and growing medium, bark”, for “1.89” substitute “1.98”.                  

## Substitution of Schedule 2U.K.

4.  For Schedule 2, substitute—                  

Regulation 2(2)(a)(ii) and (3)(b)

### “SCHEDULE2U.K.Import Inspection Fees: Reduced Rates

de Mauley

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

28th November 2013

We consent

Mark Lancaster

Anne Milton

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

4th December 2013

## EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Health (Fees) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/494) (“the principal Regulations”).                  

The principal Regulations implement Article 13d of Council Directive 2000/29/EC on protective measures against the introduction into the Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against                     their spread within the Community (OJ No. 169, 10.7.2000, p. 1) (“the Directive”) which requires Member States to charge fees to cover the costs of documentary, identity                     and plant health checks of certain imports of plants, plant products and other objects from third countries set out in Annex                     V, Part B of the Directive.                  

Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations sets out reduced rate fees for certain plants and plant products subject to reduced                     frequency inspections agreed under the procedure provided for in Articles 13d(2) and 18(2) of the Directive. Regulation 4                     of these Regulations substitutes a new Schedule 2 to give effect to the latest agreement by the EU Standing Committee on Plant Health in respect of reduced rate fees.                  

The inspection rates for the following have increased with matching increases in fees: *Dianthus* from Ecuador (from 10% to 15%); *Rosa* from Tanzania (from 10% to 15%); *Malus* from Argentina and the USA (from 10% to 25% and 35% to 50% respectively); and *Passiflora* from Zimbabwe (from 50% to 75%).                  

*Aster* from Zimbabwe and *Rosa* from Uganda are no longer eligible for reduced rate fees since these are subject to 100% inspection frequency. Accordingly,                     they are removed from Schedule 2 and the fees in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations are applied for these consignments.                  

The inspection rates for the following have decreased with matching decreases in fees: *Dianthus* from Colombia (from 5% to 3%); *Citrus* from Peru (from 25% to 15%); *Passiflora* from South Africa (from 50% to 35%); and *Momordica* from Surinam (from 50% to 35%).                  

*Mangifera* from Brazil is newly eligible for reduced rate fees corresponding to its decreased inspection rate from 100% to 50% and is                     accordingly added to Schedule 2.                  

Regulation 3 corrects an error in one of the 100% inspection level fees specified in Schedule 1.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no or no significant impact on the private or voluntary                     sectors is foreseen and they implement annual changes in fees in line with a predetermined level rather than fundamental changes                     to the regulatory regime itself.                  

1

1973 c. 51.                           

2

S.I. 2013/494.