Official Controls (Plant Health and Genetically Modified Organisms) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (W.S.I. No. 206 (W. 48) of 2020).

These Regulations give effect to European legislation on protective measures against pests of plants and on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products. They also implement European legislation on potato diseases. The Welsh Ministers are designated as the competent authority in Wales for the purposes of the EU Plant Health Regulation and the Official Controls Regulation. The Regulations make further provision in relation to consignments of plants, plant products and other objects from third countries which are subject to official controls on their entry into the European Union and impose additional temporary measures to prevent the entry of certain harmful plant pests into Wales or their establishment in, or spread within, Wales. They refer to (FAO) International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures. The Regulations also deal with official control, notifications and measures of enforcement and contain offences for non-compliance with specified provisions of the EU Plant Health Regulation, the Official Controls Regulation and other EU instruments, and offences in relation to these Regulations. A minor amendment is made to the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) Regulations 2020 to extend certain provisions in those Regulations relating to the implementation and enforcement of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 to official controls on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms for the purposes of food and feed production.