{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/2031",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Eradication of GB quarantine pests",
  "text": "1. Where one of the situations referred to in points (a) and (b) of Article 11(2) is officially confirmed, the competent authority shall immediately take all necessary phytosanitary measures to eradicate the relevant GB quarantine pest or provisional GB quarantine pest from the area concerned. Those measures shall be taken in accordance with Annex II.\nThat obligation to eradicate shall not apply where assimilated direct legislation relating to plant health provides or regulations made under Article 28(1) provide otherwise.\n2. The competent authority shall without delay investigate the source of the presence of the GB quarantine pest or provisional GB quarantine pest concerned, in particular where that presence may be related to movements of plants, plant products or other objects, and the possibility that the pest concerned has been spread to further plants, plant products or other objects by those movements.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 and the investigations referred to in paragraph 2 shall be taken irrespective of whether the pest is present on public or private premises.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(b)(i)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(b)(i)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 17 inserted (20.12.2022) by The Plant Health and Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1367), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(b)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 115(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 17(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(c) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 17(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(d) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in Art. 17 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 17(1) excluded (24.5.2023) by The Plant Health and Phytosanitary Conditions (Oak Processionary Moth and Plant Pests) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/497), regs. 1(2), 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:21.622458+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."
}