{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-63.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/63",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Supervision of quarantine stations and confinement facilities and revocation of designation",
  "text": "1. The competent authorities shall regularly inspect the quarantine stations and confinement facilities which they have designated to verify whether they meet the requirements set out in Article 61 and the operation conditions set out in Article 62.\nThey shall determine the frequency of those inspections according to the pest risk related to the operation of the quarantine stations or confinement facilities.\n2. Where corrective actions to ensure compliance with Articles 61 and 62 are considered by a competent authority to be necessary, the competent authority may require the person responsible for the quarantine station or confinement facility to implement those corrective actions ... , either immediately or within a specified period of time.\nWhere the competent authority concludes that the quarantine station or confinement facility does not comply with Articles 61 and 62 or the person responsible for it has failed to comply with Articles 61 and 62, that authority shall without delay take the measures necessary to ensure that non-compliance with those provisions does not continue. Those measures may include the revocation or suspension of the designation referred to in Article 60(1).\n3. Where the competent authority has taken measures in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article other than the revocation of the designation referred to in Article 60(1), and non-compliance with Articles 61 and 62 continues, that authority shall without delay revoke that designation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 63(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(a)(i)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(a)(i)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Art. 63(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(a)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(b)(i)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Art. 63(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(b)(i)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(b)(i)(cc) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(b)(ii)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 29(27)(b)(ii)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/63",
    "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."
}