{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-11/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111177563",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The containment measures must include—\n(a) the felling of all infested plants and plants with symptoms caused by the plant pest, other than any plant to which sub-paragraph (c) applies, and the complete removal of their roots at the appropriate time;\n(b) the removal, examination and disposal of plants felled in accordance with sub-paragraph (a) and their roots, taking all necessary precautions to avoid the spread of the plant pest after felling;\n(c) in any case where the appropriate UK plant health authority concludes that the felling and the disposal of an infested tree or any tree with symptoms caused by the plant pest would not be appropriate and alternative containment measures can be applied to offer the same level of protection to those measures, those alternative containment measures;\n(d) the prevention of any movement of potentially infested plants out of the demarcated area;\n(e) where appropriate, the replacement of susceptible plants by other plants;\n(f) the prohibition on the planting of susceptible plants in the open air within a radius of 100 m of an infested plant, except in a place of production;\n(g) intensive monitoring for the presence of the plant pest by annual inspections at appropriate times on host plants, which must include targeted destructive sampling;\n(h) activities to raise public awareness of the threat of the plant pest and the measures adopted to prevent its introduction into and spread within the relevant UK territory, including the conditions relating to the movement of susceptible plants from the demarcated area;\n(i) where necessary, specific measures to address any particularity or complication that could reasonably be expected to prevent, hinder or delay containment of the plant pest; and\n(j) any other measure which may contribute to the containment of the plant pest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111177563/schedule/11/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:02:19.063317+00:00"
  },
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  "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."
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