# Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council of 26 October 2016 on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC, Article 100: Phytosanitary certificate for export from Great Britain

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Where, for the export of a plant, plant product or other object from Great Britain to a third country or Northern Ireland, a phytosanitary certificate is required by the relevant phytosanitary import requirements (‘phytosanitary certificate for export’), that certificate shall be issued by the competent authority, at the request of the professional operator, when all of the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) the professional operator is registered by that competent authority in accordance with Article 65;
(b) the professional operator has under its control the plant, plant product or other object to be exported;
(c) it is ensured that that plant, plant product or other object complies with the relevant phytosanitary import requirements.
The competent authority shall also issue a phytosanitary certificate for export at the request of persons other than professional operators, provided that the conditions set out in points (b) and (c) of the first subparagraph are fulfilled.
For the purpose of this paragraph, the competent authority shall not delegate the issuance of the phytosanitary certificate for export to any other person.
2. Without prejudice to obligations under the IPPC, and taking into account the relevant international standards, the phytosanitary certificate for export shall be issued where the information available allows the competent authority to certify compliance of the plant, plant product or other object concerned with the relevant phytosanitary import requirements. That information may originate from one or more of the following elements, as applicable:
(a) inspections, sampling and testing of the plants, plant products or other objects concerned, or their place of production and its vicinities;
(b) official information on the pest status in the production site, place of production, area or country of origin of the plants, plant products or other objects concerned;
(c) a UK plant passport, as referred to in Article 78, accompanying the plants, plant products or other objects concerned, where that UK plant passport attests the results of inspections by a competent authority;
(d) the mark of wood packaging material as referred to in Article 96(1), or the attestations referred to in Article 99(1);
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(f) official information included in the phytosanitary certificate as referred to in Article 71, where the plants, plant products or other objects concerned have been introduced into Great Britain from a third country.
3. The phytosanitary certificate for export shall comply with the description and format of the model set out in Part A of Annex VIII.
4. The appropriate authority may by regulations amend the elements referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article ... to adapt them to the development of the relevant international standards.
5. Electronic phytosanitary certificates for export shall be provided through, or in electronic exchange with, the appropriate computerised information management system, where the use of electronic phytosanitary certificates is permitted by the competent authority.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/100 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-100
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