# The Plant Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (revoked)

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U.K.

Statutory Instruments

# 2014 No. 3243

Plant Health, England

# The Plant Health (Fees) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2014

Made

8th December 2014

Laid before Parliament

9th December 2014

Coming into force

1st January 2015

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 2014 and come into force on 1st                     January 2015.                  

## Amendment of the Plant Health (Fees) (England) Regulations 2014U.K.

2.  The Plant Health (Fees) (England) Regulations 2014(2) are amended as follows.                  

## Regulation 2(3)U.K.

3.  For paragraph (3) of regulation 2 (import inspection fees), substitute—                  

“(3)But where an importer or any other person responsible for a consignment requests that the plant health check in respect of                        the consignment be carried out outside daytime working hours and the whole of the plant health check is carried out on the                        consignment outside daytime working hours, the fee payable under paragraph (2)(a) in respect of the consignment is—                  

(a)the fee specified in column 4 of Schedule 1 to the extent (if any) that the consignment is a consignment to which paragraph                           (2)(a)(i) applies; or                  

(b)the fee specified in column 5 of Schedule 2 to the extent (if any) that the consignment is a consignment to which paragraph                           (2)(a)(ii) applies.”.                  

## Schedule 2U.K.

4.  For Schedule 2 (import inspection fees: reduced rates), 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

3rd December 2014

We consent

Mark Lancaster

Gavin Barwell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th December 2014

## EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Health (Fees) (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/601) (“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, p1) (“the Directive”). Article 13d of the Directive 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.                  

Regulation 3 amends regulation 2(3) of the principal Regulations to clarify the fees that are payable in respect of plant                     health checks which are carried out on consignments (or parts of consignments) outside daytime working hours.                  

Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations sets out reduced rate fees for certain plants and plant products which are subject                     to reduced levels of plant health checks agreed under the procedure provided for in Articles 13a(2) and 18(2) of the Directive.                     Regulation 4 of these Regulations amends Schedule 2 to give effect to the latest notification published by the European Commission                     of the reduced plant health checks which are applicable to certain plants and plant products.                  

The inspection rates for *Citrus* from Tunisia and Uruguay have increased (from 25% to 75% and 15% to 75% respectively) with matching increases in fees.                  

Fruit of *Mangifera* from Brazil are no longer eligible for reduced rate fees since this commodity is subject to an inspection rate of 100%. Accordingly,                     the relevant entry is removed from Schedule 2 and the fees in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations are applied to these                     consignments.                  

The inspection rates for the following have decreased with matching decreases in fees: *Rosa* from Zambia (from 25% to 15%), *Citrus* from Mexico and Peru (from 15% to 10%), *Prunus* from Turkey and the USA (15% to 10%), *Psidium* from Brazil (from 100% to 75%) and *Pyru*s from Chile (from 25% to 15%).                  

Fruit of *Capsicum* from Morocco are eligible for a reduced rate fee corresponding to its inspection rate of 10%. The reduced rate fee for this                     commodity is added to Schedule 2.                  

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 it implements annual changes in fees in line with a predetermined level rather than fundamental changes                     to the regulatory regime itself.                  

1

1973 c. 51. Section 56(1) was amended by S.I. 2011/1043, article 6(1)(e).                           

2

S.I. 2014/601.