{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-43.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/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Specific import conditions for the introduction into Great Britain of wood packaging material",
  "text": "1. Wood packaging material, whether or not actually in use in the transport of objects of all kinds, shall only be introduced into Great Britain from a third country if it fulfils all of the following requirements:\n(a) it has been subject to one or more of the approved treatments and complies with the applicable requirements set out in Annex 1 to ISPM15;\n(b) it is marked with the mark referred to in Annex 2 of ISPM15 attesting that it has been subject to the treatments referred to in point (a).\nThis paragraph shall not apply to wood packaging material which is subject to the exemptions provided for in ISPM15.\n2. The appropriate authority may by regulations:\n(a) amend the requirements set out in paragraph 1 of this Article to take into account the development of international standards, and in particular of ISPM15; or\n(b) specify derogations from paragraph 1 for the purpose of exempting other wood packaging material which is not subject to the exemptions provided for in ISPM15 from the requirements of paragraph 1 of this Article, or for the purpose of imposing less stringent requirements on wood packaging material which is subject to the exemptions provided for in ISPM15.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 43(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(6)(b)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 43(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(6)(b)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 43(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(6)(c) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 43 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(6)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/43",
    "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."
}