# The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2024, Regulation 4: Amendments to Article 34


(1) Article 34 (methods used for sampling, analyses, tests and diagnoses) is amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph 1 substitute—
“1. Methods used for sampling and for analyses, tests and diagnoses must comply with legislation in force in the relevant constituent territory of Great Britain establishing those methods or the performance criteria for those methods where this is done during official controls and other official activities and carried out at—
(a) an appropriate place, including those listed in Article 44(3), by an official plant health officer designated in accordance with Article 37(1); or
(b) an official laboratory.”.
(3) For paragraph 3 substitute—
“3. Where analyses, tests or diagnoses are urgently needed and none of the methods referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article exists, other methods may be used until the validation of an appropriate method in accordance with internationally accepted scientific protocols by—
(a) the relevant national reference laboratory; or
(b) any other official laboratory or, as relevant, official plant health officer, designated in accordance with Article 37(1).”.
(4) In paragraph 4 omit “laboratory”.
(5) In paragraph 6(a) omit “laboratory”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2024/9780348265842/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-official-controls-amendment-regulations-2024/regulation-4
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