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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-aquatic-animal-health-and-plant-health-legislative-functions-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111178713",
  "legislation_title": "The Aquatic Animal Health and Plant Health (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-aquatic-animal-health-and-plant-health-legislative-functions-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/12",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Power to recognise the equivalence of phytosanitary measures adopted by third countries",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate authority may by regulations modify the Plant Health Regulations to make provision for or in connection with the recognition of any phytosanitary measure adopted by a third country where the third country has objectively demonstrated to the national plant protection organisation of the United Kingdom that the measure is equivalent to a domestic phytosanitary measure.\n(2) Regulations under paragraph (1) may (among other things)—\n(a) modify the domestic phytosanitary measure concerned to recognise the equivalence of the phytosanitary measure of the third country; and\n(b) specify the relevant material to which, and the conditions under which, the recognition of equivalence applies.\n(3) In this regulation, “domestic phytosanitary measure” means a phytosanitary measure specified in the Plant Health Regulations that applies in relation to a plant pest or relevant material under or by virtue of a relevant Plant Health Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111178713/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:01:46.159951+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}