חוק מועצת הצמחים (ייצור ושיווק) (תיקון מס' 10), התשע"ח-2018Plant Council Law (Production and Marketing) (Amendment No. 10), 2018 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The Law was passed in its second and third readings on 9 July 2018, and it amends the Plants Council (Production and Marketing) Law, 1973 (hereinafter – the Law). The amendment to the Law relates mainly to the authority of the Plants Council to determine, by rules, the levies it collects from farmers (growers), intended to finance its activity. The authority to determine the levies was transferred from the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to the Plants Council, in an amendment to the Law passed in 2007. Shortly before the authority to determine the levies as described was transferred to the Plants Council, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development enacted regulations setting the levies, but since the authority was transferred, the Council has not established updated rules, because the authorizing section in the Law, in its current wording, includes terms that are not relevant or cannot be implemented. According to the amendment to the Law, the Plants Council will determine the levies according to the weight of the marketed produce, and only with regard to a certain species of plants, according to the recommendation of a subcommittee established within the Council for that species or an advisory committee established within the Council – will the levies be determined according to the cultivation area. The Council's rules will also establish provisions that will allow a group of growers of a certain species, on whom a levy was imposed according to cultivation area, to approach the Council and request that a levy be imposed on that group according to the weight of marketed produce, provided that the group of growers constitutes a minimum percentage, to be determined in the rules, of the total number of growers of that species.

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