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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-16/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/16/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The containment measures must include—\n(a) the following measures—\n(i) the felling of all infested plants and plants with symptoms caused by the plant pest and the complete removal of their roots if larval galleries are observed below the root collar of the infested plants, at the appropriate time; and\n(ii) the removal, examination and disposal of plants felled in accordance with paragraph (i) and, where necessary, their roots, taking all necessary precautions to avoid the spread of the plant pest after felling; or\n(b) the prohibition of any movement of potentially infested plants out of the demarcated area;\n(c) where appropriate, the replacement of susceptible plants by other plants;\n(d) 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 authorised by the appropriate UK plant health authority;\n(e) intensive monitoring for the presence of the plant pest on host plants, with specific focus on the buffer zone, which must include at least one inspection a year using techniques capable of detecting infestation at crown height and, where appropriate, targeted destructive sampling;\n(f) 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 and susceptible wood from the demarcated area;\n(g) where necessary, specific measures to address any particularity or complication that could reasonably be expected to prevent, hinder or delay eradication of the plant pest; and\n(h) any other measure which may contribute to the containment of the plant pest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111177563/schedule/16/paragraph/12",
    "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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