{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-65.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/65",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Official register of professional operators",
  "text": "1. The competent authorities shall keep and update a register containing the following professional operators who operate in Great Britain:\n(a) professional operators introducing into, or moving within, Great Britain plants, plant products and other objects for which a phytosanitary certificate or a UK plant passport is required ... pursuant to Article 72(1), Article 73, Article 74(1), Article 79(1) and Article 80(1);\n(b) professional operators authorised to issue UK plant passports in accordance with Article 89;\n(c) professional operators who request the competent authority to issue the certificates referred to in Articles 100 and 101;\n(d) professional operators authorised to apply the marks referred to in Article 98, authorised to issue the attestations referred to in Article 99, providing information in accordance with Articles 45 or 55, ... or carrying out activities concerning the relevant plants in demarcated areas, unless those operators are listed in another official register which is accessible to the competent authorities; and\n(e) professional operators other than the ones referred to in points (a) to (d) of this subparagraph, if so required by the special requirements in Annex 7, 8 or 10 or by regulations made under Article 28(1), 30(1) or 49(1).\n...\n2. The competent authorities must ensure that a professional operator is registered only once. Where applicable, that registration shall be carried out with explicit references to each of the different premises referred to in point (d) of Article 66(2).\n3. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not apply to a professional operator who fulfils one or more of the following criteria:\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) it supplies exclusively and directly to final users small quantities of seeds, other than the seeds subject to Article 72;\n(c) its professional activity concerning plants, plant products and other objects is limited to transporting them for another professional operator;\n(d) its professional activity exclusively concerns the transport of objects of all kinds using wood packaging material.\n...\n4. The appropriate authority may by regulations:\n(a) amend this Regulation by adding further categories of professional operators to be exempted from the application of paragraph 1 of this Article, where registration would constitute an administrative burden for them disproportionate to the low pest risk related to their professional activities;\n(b) supplement this Regulation by setting out particular requirements for the registration of certain categories of professional operators, taking into account the nature of the activity or of the plant, plant product or other object concerned;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 65(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(i)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(i)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(ii)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(ii)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(ii)(cc) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 65(1)(b) inserted (27.1.2021) by The Plant Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/79), regs. 1(2), 3(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(iii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1)(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(iv) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(1)(e) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(a)(v) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(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), 30(1)(a)(vi) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(b) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Art. 65(3)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(c)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(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), 30(1)(c)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Art. 65(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(d)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Word in Art. 65(4)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(d)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Word in Art. 65(4)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(d)(iii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Art. 65(4)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 30(1)(d)(iv) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:21.622458+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}