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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-13/paragraph-15",
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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/13/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The appropriate UK plant health authority must ensure that the following measures are taken under official supervision to contain the plant pest—\n(a) the carrying out of annual surveys of susceptible plants and the vector in the infested zone or zones in the demarcated area;\n(b) the felling of all susceptible plants in the infested zone or zones in which the plant pest has been found to be present and the removal and disposal of those plants and their felling remains, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading the plant pest and the vector;\n(c) the carrying out of the following surveys in the buffer zone of the demarcated area in accordance with paragraphs 16 and 17—\n(i) surveys, during and outside the flight season of the vector, of susceptible plants and residual material; and\n(ii) surveys, during the flight season of the vector, of the vector itself;\n(d) the identification of all susceptible plants in the buffer zone which are infested with the plant pest or which are dead, in poor health or affected by fire or storm;\n(e) the felling, at the appropriate time, of all susceptible plants in the buffer zone which have been found to be infested with the plant pest, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading the plant pest and the vector during felling;\n(f) the disposal of all felled susceptible plants and the resulting logging remains in the buffer zone, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading the plant pest and the vector during their disposal, by—\n(i) their immediate destruction on site;\n(ii) their movement under official control from the buffer zone into the infested zone or zones; or\n(iii) their removal and the treatment of their wood and bark in accordance with paragraph 18;\n(g) in the case of felled susceptible plants in the buffer zone in which the plant pest has not already been found to be present, the removal of those plants and their logging remains, taking all necessary precautions to ensure that they do not attract the plant pest or the vector;\n(h) the identification of all felled susceptible plants in the buffer zone which are not subject to any of the preceding measures in this paragraph and the removal of those plants and their logging remains, taking all necessary precautions to avoid spreading the plant pest and the vector; and\n(i) the production of a hygiene protocol setting out the hygiene procedures for vehicles transporting forest products and machinery for processing forest products to ensure that the plant pest cannot be spread with those vehicles and machinery.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:02:19.063317+00:00"
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  "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."
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