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L.N. 144 of 2020
PLANT
 QUARANTINE ACT
(CAP. 433)
Fruit Trees Propagation Ma terial (Amendment No. 2) 
Regulations, 2020
IN EXERCISE of the powers confer red by article 32 of the Plant
Quarantine Act, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal
Rights, has made the following regulations:-
Citation and 
scope.
S.L. 433.08.1. (1) The title of these regulations is Fruit Trees
Propagation Material (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, 2020 and th ey
shall be read and construed as one with the Fruit Trees Propaga tion
Material Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal
regulations".
(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission
Implementing Directive (EU)  2019/1813 amending Implementing
Directive 2014/96/EU on the requirements for the labelling, sea ling
and packaging of fruit plant p ropagating material and fruit pla nts
intended for fruit production, falling within the scope of Coun cil
Directive 2008/90/EC as regards the colour of the label for certified
categories of propagating material and fruit plants and the con tent of
the supplier’s document.
Amends 
Schedule II to 
the principal 
regulations.2. Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be amended as
follows:
(a) item (4) of Section I thereof, shall be substituted by
the following:
"(4) The colour of the label shall be: 
(a) white with a diagonal violet stripe for pre-
basic material;
(b) white for basic material;
(c) blue for certified material."; and
(b) Section  IV thereof, shall be substituted by the
following:
"IV . Supplier’s document for CAC materialSuppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 20,3 87, 13 ta’ April, 2020
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(1) The responsible official body shall ensure
that CAC material is marketed with a document
prepared by the supplier in compliance with items(2), (3) and (4) hereunder, hereinafter "the supplier’s
document".
The responsible official body shall ensure that
the supplier’s document does not resemble theaccompanying document referred to in Section I or an
accompanying document referred to in Section II, so
as to avoid any possible c onfusion between those two
documents.
(2) The supplier’s document shall contain at
least the following information:
(a) the indication "EU rules and
standards";
(b) the name of the Member State
where the document has been prepared, or the
respective code;
(c) the responsible official body or the
respective code;
(d) the name of the supplier or its
registration number, or code issued by theresponsible official body;
(e) the individual serial number, week
number or batch number;
(f) the botanical name;
(g) the indication "CAC material";
(h) the denomination of the variety and,
where appropriate, the clone. In the case of
rootstocks not belonging to a variety: the name
of the species or the interspecific hybrid
concerned. For grafted fruit plants, suchinformation shall be given for the rootstock and
the top-graft. For varieties for which an
application for official r egistration or for a plant
variety right is pending, such information shall
indicate: "proposed denomination" and
"application pending"; and
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(i) the date of issue of the document.
(3) Where the supplier’s document is affixed
to the CAC material, the colour of the supplier’s
document shall be yellow.
(4) The supplier’s document shall be
indelibly printed in one of the official languages ofthe Union, clearly visible and legible.".
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Ippubblikat mid-Dipartiment tal-Informazzjoni (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta — Published by the Department of Information (doi.gov.mt) — Valletta
Mitbugħ fl-Istamperija tal-Gvern fuq karta FSC — Printed at the Government Printing Press on FSC certified paper
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