S.L. 433.10 Art. 2Scope.

(1) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Council

Directive 1999/105/EC on the marketing of forest reproductive material, to ensure that any forest reproductive material produced, placed on the market in Malta or being transhipped through Malta prior to its transport to another Member State meets specified standards of quality.

(2) These regulations shall apply to the production with a view to marketing and to the marketing of forest reproductive material within the European Union of the genera and species and artificial hybrids listed in Schedule I of these regulations and shall apply without prejudice to Commission Decision 2008/989/EC authorising Member States, in accordance with Council Directive 1999/105/EC, to take decisions on the equivalence of the guarantees afforded by forest reproductive material to be imported from certain third countries, and Council Decision 2008/971/EC on the equivalence of forest reproductive material produced in third countries as amended by Decision No 1104/2012/EU.

(3) These regulations shall not apply to forest reproductive material:

(a) in the form of planting stock or parts of plants intended to be used for purposes other than forestry, or

(b) intended to be exported or re-exported to third countries.