S.L. 433.35 Art. 6Official registration of professional operators. 3 4 [S.L.

(1) Professional operators that carry out any of the following activities shall be registered in the Malta Official Register

(MOR), established and held by the Directorate, under the provisions of these regulations, the Plant Health Regulation and the Official Controls Regulation:

(a) introducing into, or moving within the Union, plants, plant products and other objects for which a phytosanitary certificate or a plant passport is required on the basis of the implementing acts adopted pursuant to Article 72(1), Article 73, Article 74(1), Article 79(1) and Article 80(1) of the Plant Health Regulation;

(b) are authorised to issue plant passports in accordance with Article 89 of the Plant Health Regulation;

(c) requesting the Directorate to issue the certificates referred to in Articles 100 (Phytosanitary certificate for export from the Union), 101 (Phytosanitary certificate for re-export from the Union) and 102 (Pre-export certificates) of the Plant Health Regulation;

(d) in the context of the Plant Health Regulation, are authorised to apply the mark on wood packaging material referred to in Article 98, authorised to issue the attestations other than the mark on wood packaging material referred to in Article 99, providing information to travellers and clients of postal services in accordance with Articles 45 or 55 (providing information to travellers and clients of postal services as regards protected zones), introducing plants, plant products or other objects to frontier zones in accordance with Article 46(1) or Article 56, or carrying out activities concerning the relevant plants in demarcated areas, unless those operators are listed in another official register which is accessible to the competent authorities; and, or

(e) carry out activities other than the ones referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of this sub-regulation, if so required by implementing acts adopted pursuant to Article 28(1), Article 30(1), Article 41(2), Article 49(1), Article 53(2) or Article 54(2) of the Plant Health Regulation;

(f) are involved in one of the below activities:

(i) management of collective warehouses or dispatching centers of tubers of L., Solanum tuberosum other than seed potatoes;

(ii) management of collective warehouses or dispatching centers of fruits of Citrus L., Fortunella Swingle, Poncirus Raf. and their hybrids; and, or

(iii) production of plants of intended Palmae, for planting, having a diameter of the stem at the base of over 5 cm and belonging to the following genera: Mart., Becc., L., Brahea Butia Chamaerops Jubaea Kunth, R. Br., L., Adans., Livistona Phoenix Sabal Mart., H. Wendl., Syagrus Trachycarpus Trithrinax Mart., Raf; Washingtonia AND RELATED OFFICIAL CONTROLS AND OTHER 433.35 OFFICIAL ACTIVITIES

(g) production and marketing of plant reproductive material.

(2) The Director may apply exemptions from registration of a professional operator as per point 3 of Article 65 of the Plant Health Regulation.