{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1614/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-1614/article-4.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": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Inspections by competent authorities",
  "text": "1. Samples for official examination in respect of Clavibacter michiganensis (Smith) Davis et al. ssp. sepedonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthoff) Davis et al., hereinafter ‘the specified organism’, shall be taken from each lot in a consignment. Each sample shall consist of at least 200 tubers. Where a lot exceeds 25 tonnes, a sample shall be taken for each 25 tonnes and, in addition, for the remaining part of the lot.\n2. The responsible official bodies shall carry out a visual examination of the samples for symptoms of the specified organism on cut tubers. During that examination, all lots of the consignment concerned shall remain under official control and shall not be moved or used.\n3. Where symptoms of the specified organism are detected during the examination referred to in paragraph 2, tests, determining whether the specified organism is present, shall be carried out in accordance with EPPO PM 7/59.\nWhile those tests are carried out, all lots of the consignment concerned, and all other consignments which contain a lot originating in the same pest-free area and which are under the control of the responsible official body concerned, must remain under official control, and must not be moved or used.\nWhile those tests are carried out, all lots of the consignment concerned, and all other consignments which contain a lot originating in the same pest free area and are under the control of the responsible official body concerned, shall remain under official control, and shall not be moved or used.\n4. Where the presence of the specified organism is confirmed in a sample in accordance with paragraph 3, there shall be retention and appropriate conservation of any remaining potato extract and the lot concerned shall not be introduced into Great Britain.\nAll remaining lots referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 3 shall be tested in accordance with EPPO PM 7/59.\n5. As regards lots for which no symptoms of the specified organism are detected in the samples during the examination referred to in paragraph 2, tests for latent infection shall be carried out on all of the lots in accordance with EPPO PM 7/59.\nDuring that testing that lot shall remain under official control and shall not be moved or used.\nWhere the presence of the specified organism is confirmed in a sample as referred to in the first subparagraph, there shall be retention and appropriate conservation of any remaining potato extract and the lot concerned shall not be introduced into Great Britain.\n(6.) In this Article and in Article 5, “EPPO PM 7/59” (“EPPO PM 7/59”) means the standard describing a diagnostic protocol for Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus approved by the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(3) 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(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(3) inserted (E.W.S.) (4.2.2023) by The Plant Health and Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1367), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(4) 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(5)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(4) 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(5)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(5) 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(5)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(5) 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(5)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 4(6) inserted (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(5)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(6) inserted (E.W.S.) (4.2.2023) by The Plant Health and Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1367), regs. 1(2), 7(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 heading 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(5)(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/1614/article/4",
    "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."
}