Statutory Order on Health, Varietal Purity and Quality of Nursery Stock
The Government of Sweden has issued a new Statutory Order on Health, Varietal Purity and Quality of Nursery Stock. The new Order came into force l January 1978. During 1978, the National Board of Agriculture will issue statutory rules on the application of the new Order.
Amendments to the Statutory Rules issued by the National Board of Agriculture on the Application of the Statutory Order on the Importation of Plants, etc., were issued on 19 December 1977.
The afore-mentioned Order and amendments to the Rules are appended.
The Government prescribes as follows.
Article 1. Woody nursery stock (except forest trees), strawberry plants or perpetual fruiting strawberry plants may not be kept for professional sale or sold unless the plants meet the health and quality requirements prescribed by the National Board of Agriculture.
Article 2. In professional trade with plants as referred to under Article 1, the plants in all the trade channels shall be supplied with information on variety and quality according to directions issued by the National Board of Agriculture.
Article 3. Anyone who runs a nursery or carries on resale with plants, as referred to under Article 1, is obliged to report the matter in the way and within the time as directed by the National Board of Agriculture.
Article 4. Importation of plants, as referred to under Article 1, may take place only if the plants meet the variety and quality requirements prescribed by the National Board of Agriculture.
Regarding the right to handle goods not cleared by the customs and, under this Order, not to be imported, the Act (SFS 1973:980) on the Transportation, Storage, and Destruction of Import Controlled Goods, etc. shall apply.
The National Board of Agriculture may prescribe a limitation of the right to handle uncleared goods as referred to under the second paragraph.
Article 5. Prohibitions against import of plant pathogens are regulated by the Statutory Order (SFS 1975:994) on the Importation of Plants etc.
Article 6. The supervision of the observance of this Order, and of provisions issued under the Order, is exercised by the National Board of Agriculture or, upon decision of the Board by a County Agricultural Board.
Article 7. The authority, according to Article 3 and the first paragraph of Article 4 in the Act (SFS 1975:74) with Authorization to Issue Certain Directions for Horticultural Industry, is exercised by the National Board of Agriculture or, upon decision of the Board, by a County Agricultural Board.
Article 8. For control according to Article 6, a fee shall be paid by the owner of nursery, by the reseller or, in case of importation of plants into this country, by the one who under Article 5 of the Customs Act is liable to pay customs duty. The rate of the fee is determined by the National Board of Agriculture in consultation with the National Accounting and Audit Bureau.
The importation fee is assessed and collected by the Customs Office. In the matter of the fee the Customs Act shall apply.
Article 9. Anyone who violates provisions of Article 1 or 2 shall be liable to a fine.
Article 10. The Act (SFS 1960:418) on Penalty of Illicit Importation prescribes the penalty of importation of goods or attempted importation of goods in violation of prescriptions of Article 4 or of provisions issued in pursuance of Article 4.
Article 11. The National Board of Agriculture issues further directions according to the first paragraph of Article 1 in the Act (SFS 1975:74) with Authorization to Issue Certain Directions for Horticultural Industry.
Article 12. An appeal against a decision made by a County Agricultural Board in pursuance of this order, shall be lodged with the National Board of Agriculture.
An appeal against a decision made in an individual case by the National Board of Agriculture in pursuance of this Order, shall be lodged with the Administrative Court of Appeal.
An appeal against a decision, made by the National Board of Agriculture, other than as referred to under the second paragraph, shall be lodged with the Government.
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This Order shall come into force on 1 January 1978 whereby, the Order (SFS 1950:84) with Certain Regulations on the Importation of Fruit Trees and Berry-Bushes, the Order (SFS 1966:339) on Compulsory Health Control of Certain Nursery Trees and the Order (SFS 1966:340) on Quality Designation of Nursery Products, shall cease to apply.
This is a translation. In case of any difference in meaning between the original Swedish text and the English translation the Swedish text shall apply.
NATIONAL BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
Plant Protection Service
National Board of Agriculture, Statute Book, LSFS 1977:50
Amendments to Statutory Rules (LBS 1975:95) issued by the National Board of Agriculture on the Application of the Statutory Order (1975:994) on the Importation of Plants etc. issued 19 December 1977
Under the provisions of Article 27 of the Statutory Order (1975:994) on the Importation of Plants, etc., the National Board of Agriculture prescribes, in the matter of the Statutory Rules (LBS 1975:95) in accordance with the Statutory Order, partly that the application in the second paragraph of Article 8 shall cease to apply, partly that the first paragraph (6)of Article 3, the third paragraph of Article 7, Article 9, and Appendix 4, shall have the wording given here below.
Article 3 first paragraph (6)
The area which cannot be considered free from Ips amitinus comprises the German Democratic Republic, Finland, Poland, and the Soviet Union.
During the period October 16 - April 30 the importation of unbarked wood of pine and spruce of statistical numbers 44.01.100-900, 44.03.101-102, 601-602, 901-902, 44.04.200) is also permitted from areas with occurrence of Ips amitinus.
Article 7 third paragraph
Importation of host plants of the San José Scale from countries not considered free by the National Board of Agriculture from this pest may take place only if disinfection of the plants has been carried out in the exporting country according to the standard method recommended by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO). The disinfection shall be stated in the phytosanitary certificate.
Article 9
Admissible packing materials are: rush, reeds, Sphagnum moss, peat litter, peat mould, seaweed, sawdust, cutter shavings, wood, wood-wool, paper, jute sacking and sterile materials. The materials shall be unused. Used crates, used sacks or jute sacking may be used provided that the certificate gives evidence of their steam sterilization (l00°C for at least 20 minutes).
Appendix 4
Occurrence of Fire Blight
The following countries or parts of countries shall be considered infested by Fire Blight:
Countries:
Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Turkey and USA.
Parts of countries:
England and Wales in Great Britain, the federal states of Bremen, Hamburg, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Schleswig-Holstein in the Federal Republic of Germany, the coastal area of Poland, German Democratic Republic and France (the western coast north of Dieppe) up to 150 km from the coast.
Occurrence of San José Scale
The following countries shall be considered free from the San José Scale:
Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Great Britain with Northern Ireland, Sweden, Tunisia and German Democratic Republic.
These amended Statutory Rules shall come into force on 1 January 1978.
This is a translation. In case of any difference in meaning between the original Swedish text and the English translation, the Swedish text shall apply.
Sources
Plant Protection Service, Jönköping (1978-05)