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Plant Protection Law (1998)

Country
Type of law
Legislation
Date of original text
Source

Abstract
This Law regulates plant protection. Its purpose is to regulate the activities of natural persons and legal persons in the field of plant protection in order to prevent the import, introduction and spread of harmful organisms in the territory of the State and the European Union, as well as to ensure that the plant protection measures and plant protection products do not leave an adverse effect on human health, those species of animals, which people raise or utilise for food, and the environment, and to prevent the accumulation of plant protection product residues in the products produced, in the soil and in water above the permissible norms. Plant protection is a set of legal, technical, organisational and practical measures to be taken in order to study biological and ecological factors of the organisms harmful to and competitive with plants, to specify and implement restrictions on and combating of the spread of such organisms. The Ministry of Agriculture of Latvia oversees plant protection in the State. A series of fines is envisaged for violations of this Law. In particular, for violation of the requirements for placing plant protection products on the market, for violation of the requirements for the use of plant protection products, for the cultivation of plants subject to phytosanitary control, processing, storage, trade and movement of plants and plant products subject to phytosanitary control without registering in the register of persons involved in the circulation of plants and plant products subject to phytosanitary control, for the distribution of plants, plant products and objects that have come into contact with them specified in the regulatory enactments regarding plant quarantine and for allowing the spread, including cultivation, failure to implement containment measures, allowing reproduction and movement of invasive plant species.
Date of consolidation/reprint
Notes
The Latvian version of this Law is consolidated as at 13 October 2011.
Repealed
No
Serial Imprint
Latvijas Vēstnesis , 388/399, 30.12.1998 .; Speaker of the Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia, 2, 28.01.1999.
Source language

English

Legislation status
in force
Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
Augu aizsardzības likums (1998)
Implemented by
Repeals