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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-amendment-england-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-64",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111182390",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-amendment-england-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/64",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In article 2—\n(a) in paragraph (1)—\n(i) at the appropriate places insert—\n““appropriate UK plant health authority” means—\n(a) in relation to timber and forest pests in England, the Forestry Commissioners;\n(b) otherwise in relation to England, the Secretary of State;\n(c) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(d) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;\n(e) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;\n“EPP0 PM 7/21” means the standard describing a diagnostic protocol for Ralstonia solanacearum, R. pseudosolanacearum and R. syzygii approved by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization;\n“EPPO PM 7/59” means the standard describing a diagnostic protocol for Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus approved by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization;\n“the list of controlled material” means Schedule 6 to the Plant Health Regulations;\n“the list of pest free area controlled material” means Schedule 7 to the Plant Health Regulations;\n“the list of prohibited infested material” means Schedule 2 to the Plant Health Regulations;\n“the list of prohibited material” means Schedule 3 to the Plant Health Regulations;\n“the list of prohibited plant pests” means Schedule 1 to the Plant Health Regulations;\n“the list of regulated material” means Schedule 4 to the Plant Health Regulations;\n“pest free area” means that part of a UK pest free area that is in England or, where the UK pest free area includes two or more separate parts of England, each such part;\n“the Plant Health Regulations” means the Plant Health (EU Exit) Regulations 2019;\n“regulated plant pest” means—\n(a) a plant pest of a description specified in Part A, B or D of the list of prohibited plant pests;\n(b) a plant pest of a description specified in Part C of the list of prohibited plant pests which relates to a pest free area;\n(c) a plant pest of a description specified in column 2 of Part A, B or D of the list of prohibited infested material;\n(d) a plant pest of a description specified in column 2 of Part C of the list of prohibited infested material which relates to a pest free area;\n“UK pest free area” means an area in the United Kingdom which has been established as a pest free area in accordance with ISPM No. 4;\n“UK plant passport” means a label and, where appropriate, an accompanying document that meets the relevant requirements set out in Part A or B of Schedule 9, issued by or with the authority of the appropriate UK plant health authority, and includes any replacement of such a passport;\n“UK territory” means England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland;”;\n(ii) omit the definitions from “Annex II Part B” to “Annex IV Part B”;\n(iii) in the definition of “authorised officer” for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—\n“(a) in relation to a UK plant passport, an inspector acting under the authority of the appropriate UK plant health authority; or\n(b) in relation to a phytosanitary certificate or phytosanitary certificate for re-export, an authorised representative of, or a public officer acting under, the national plant protection organisation of the country in which a phytosanitary certificate or phytosanitary certificate for re-export or a translation of a phytosanitary certificate or phytosanitary certificate for re-export is issued”;\n(iv) omit the definition of “citrus fruits for processing”;\n(v) for the definition of “consignment” substitute—\n““consignment” means a quantity of goods covered by a single document required for customs or other formalities”;\n(vi) omit the definitions from “Decision 2002/757/EC” to “Decision (EU) 2018/638/EU”;\n(vii) omit the definition of “Directive 2000/29/EC”;\n(viii) omit the definition of “Directive 2008/61/EC”;\n(ix) omit the definitions of “EU transit agreement”, “EU transit goods”, “Euro-Mediterranean area” and “Europe”;\n(x) in the definition of “European Union”, omit “including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands,”;\n(xi) omit the definition of “fruit”;\n(xii) in the definition of “importer”, for “landing” substitute “consignment”;\n(xiii) omit the definition of “landed”;\n(xiv) in the definition of “national plant protection organisation”, for “European Commission”, substitute “national plant protection organisation of the United Kingdom”;\n(xv) omit the definition of “North America” and “nursery”;\n(xvi) in the definition of “official”, for “responsible official body” substitute “appropriate UK plant health authority”;\n(xvii) omit the definition of “official documentation”;\n(xviii) in the definition of “official label”, for the words from “responsible” to the end substitute “appropriate UK plant health authority”;\n(xix) in the definition of “official statement”, after “in a” insert “UK”;\n(xx) omit the definition of “the OPM protected zone”;\n(xxi) omit the definitions of “plant health check” and “plant health movement document”;\n(xxii) for the definition of “planting” substitute—\n““planting” means any operation for the placing of plants to ensure their subsequent growth, reproduction or propagation;”;\n(xxiii) omit the definitions of “plant or shrub in tissue culture” and “plant passport”;\n(xxiv) for the definition of “plant product” substitute—\n““plant product” means a product of plant origin, unprocessed or having undergone simple preparation, in so far as it is not a plant;”;\n(xxv) omit the definition of “protected zone”;\n(xxvi) omit the definition of “Regulation (EC) No 690/2008”;\n(xxvii) omit the definition of “responsible official body”;\n(xxviii) omit the definitions of “South America” and “Swiss plant passport”;\n(xxix) in the definition of “third country”, for “European Union”, substitute “United Kingdom”;\n(xxx) omit the definition of “the USA”;\n(b) in paragraph (3), for “Any” substitute “Unless expressly provided otherwise, any”;\n(c) omit paragraph (5);\n(d) at the end insert—\n“(6) Words and expressions which are not defined in this Order and which appear in the Plant Health Regulations have the same meaning in this Order as they have in the Plant Health Regulations.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
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      "text": "First approved by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization in September 2003 and available from its Secretariat at 21 Boulevard Richard Lenoir, 75011, Paris, France and at https://www.eppo.int/RESOURCES/eppo_standards/pm7_diagnostics."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Approved by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization in September 2005 and available from its Secretariat at 21 Boulevard Richard Lenoir, 75011, Paris, France and at https://www.eppo.int/RESOURCES/eppo_standards/pm7_diagnostics."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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