{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1614/annex/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1614/annex/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2019/1614",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1614 of 26 September 2019 authorising Member States to provide for derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of potatoes, other than potatoes intended for planting, originating in the regions of Akkar and Bekaa of Lebanon (notified under document C(2019) 6819)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1614",
  "path": "annex/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(2)",
  "heading": "Surveys of pest free areas",
  "text": "The pest free areas are subject to systematic and representative annual surveys for the detection of the specified organism referred to in Article 4(1), carried out by the Lebanese authorities, throughout the five years before and during production.\nThe surveys take place on potato fields located in the pest free areas, and on potatoes harvested in those areas.\nThe surveys consist of the following elements:\n(a)visual inspections of the fields during the growing season;\n(b)visual examination of the harvested potatoes for symptoms of the specified organism on cut tubers;\n(c)laboratory testing on symptomatic and asymptomatic potatoes.\nThe surveys do not result in any finding of the specified organism or of any other evidence which could indicate that the area is not a pest free area within the meaning of point (1). The results of the surveys are made available to the UK NPPO upon request.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex points (1)(2) substituted (16.11.2022) by The Animals, Food, Plant Health, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1090), regs. 1(1), 14(11)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1614/annex/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:34.430358+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."
}