{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-23.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/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Multiannual survey programmes and collection of information",
  "text": "1. The competent authorities shall establish multiannual survey programmes setting out the content of the surveys to be carried out pursuant to Article 22. Those programmes shall provide for the collection and recording of the scientific and technical evidence and other information referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 22(2).\nThe multiannual survey programmes shall include the following elements in conformity with Article 22(2):\n(a) the specific objective of each survey;\n(b) the scope of each survey as regards the area concerned and the time scale covered, as well as the pests, plants and commodities targeted;\n(c) the survey methodology and quality management including a description of the procedures for visual examination, sampling and testing and their technical justification;\n(d) the timing, frequency and numbers of scheduled visual examinations, samples and tests; and\n(e) the methods of recording and reporting the information collected.\nThe multiannual survey programmes shall be for a period of five to seven years.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 23(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(22)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 23(2)(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(22)(b) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/23",
    "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."
}