{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-plant-health-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-16/paragraph-16",
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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/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where the appropriate UK plant health authority does not demarcate an area for the reasons specified in paragraph 15(a) and (b), the appropriate UK plant health authority must ensure that—\n(a) measures are taken immediately for the purpose of promptly eradicating the plant pest and preventing its spread;\n(b) monitoring is carried out over the relevant period for the presence of the plant pest in the area which lies within a radius of one km of the infested plants or infested wood or the place where the plant pest was found, which must be regular and intensive in the first year;\n(c) all infested plants and wood are destroyed;\n(d) tracing back to the origin of the infestation and tracing of plants and wood associated with the infestation is carried out as far as possible, along with examinations of the plants and wood traced for any sign that they are infested with the plant pest, which must include targeted destructive sampling;\n(e) activities to raise public awareness of the threat posed by the plant pest are carried out; and\n(f) any other measure which may contribute to the containment of the plant pest, taking account of the guidelines in ISPM No. 9 and ISPM No. 14.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111177563/schedule/16/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:02:19.063317+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}