Plant Health (Amendment No.3) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 (S.R. No. 392 of 2012).

This Order amends the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 2006 to provide for emergency measures to prevent the introduction and spread of a specified disease causing ash dieback. In particular, the Order: (a) prohibits the landing in or the spread within Northern Ireland of the disease; (b) prohibits the landing in or the movement within Northern Ireland of plants of Fraxinus L. intended for planting which are infected with the disease; (c) imposes additional requirements on the landing in or movement within Northern Ireland of plants of Fraxinus L. intended for planting; and (d) imposes additional requirements on the consignment from Northern Ireland to other parts of the European Union of plants of Fraxinus L. intended for planting. This Order also: (a) implements Commission Directive 2008/61/EC (establishing the conditions under which certain harmful organisms, plants, plant products and other objects listed in Annexes 1 to V to Council Directive 2000/29/EC may be introduced into or moved within the Community or certain protected zones thereof, for trial or scientific purposes and for work on varietal selections); and (b) confers powers on the Department to grant licences for trial or scientific purposes.