Non-native Species: EU Law

(asked on 18th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what management measures his Department has in place to meet the UK’s obligations under Article 19 of EU Regulation No 1143/2014 on invasive alien species.


Answered by
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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 26th February 2019

Article 19 of the EU Invasive Alien Species Regulation (“The EU Regulation”) requires EU Member States to put in place effective management measures for listed species that are widely spread so that their impact on biodiversity, ecosystem services, human health and the economy are minimised. These measures must be aimed at the eradication, population control or containment of the population of a species.

Around 15 of the listed species are widespread in England and Wales, including grey squirrel, muntjac deer and floating pennywort, and management measures are already in place for some of these. For example, work by the Forestry Commission and UK Squirrel Accord partners under the Grey Squirrel Action Plan, and the removal by the Environment Agency of more than 1,000 tonnes of pennywort from the River Ouse in 2018.

We will be consulting on measures for widespread species.

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