Article 22 Surveys on GB quarantine pests and pests provisionally qualifying as GB quarantine pestsF8
United Kingdom
F1The competent authorities shall carry out risk-based surveys F2in the territories for which they are responsible, over specific periods of time, checking at least for:
the presence of any F3GB quarantine pest; and
signs or symptoms of any F4provisional GB quarantine pest or any pest which is subject to measures pursuant to Article 29(2A).
Those surveys shall take place in all areas where the pest concerned was not known to be present.
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The design of the surveys referred to in paragraph 1 shall be based on the risk that the pest occurs in the area covered by each survey. They shall consist, at least, of visual examinations by the competent authority F6carrying out the survey and, where appropriate, the collection of samples and performance of tests. Those surveys shall be carried out in all appropriate locations and shall include, where appropriate, premises, vehicles, machinery and packaging used by professional operators and other persons. They shall be based on sound scientific and technical principles and shall be carried out at appropriate times with regard to the possibility to detect the pest concerned.
Those surveys shall take account of scientific and technical evidence, and any other appropriate information, concerning the presence of the pests concerned.
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Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Art. 22(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(21)(b)(i)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F2
Words in Art. 22(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(21)(b)(i)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F3
Word in Art. 22(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(21)(b)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F4
Words in Art. 22(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(21)(b)(iii) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F5
Words in Art. 22(1) 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(21)(b)(iv) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F6
Words in Art. 22(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(21)(c) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F7
Art. 22(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(21)(d) (with regs. 53, 55)
- F8
Word in Art. 22 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(21)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)
Notes on Section 2
Textual amendments
- F1
Word in Ch. 2 Section 2 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(2) (with regs. 53, 55)