{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-71.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/71",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Phytosanitary certificate for introduction into Great Britain",
  "text": "1. A phytosanitary certificate for introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into Great Britain shall be a document, issued by a relevant authority, which fulfils the conditions of Article 76, has the contents set out in Part A of Annex V, or, where applicable, Part B of Annex V, and certifies that the plant, plant product or other object concerned complies with all of the following requirements:\n(a) it is free from GB quarantine pests and provisional GB quarantine pests;\n(b) it complies with the provisions of Article 37(1) concerning the presence of GB regulated non-quarantine pests on plants for planting;\n(c) it complies with the requirements referred to in Article 41(1) or, where applicable, Article 54(1);\n(d) where applicable, it complies with any requirements specified in regulations made under Article 28(1) or 30(1).\n2. Where one or more options are specified for the purposes of meeting any such requirements, the phytosanitary certificate shall specify under the heading ‘Additional Declaration’ which specific requirement is fulfilled ...\n3. Where required by regulations made under Article 44(1), the phytosanitary certificate shall state that the plants, plant products or other objects concerned comply with phytosanitary measures recognised for the purposes of those regulations as equivalent ....\n4. The appropriate authority may by regulations amend Parts A and B of Annex V to adapt them to the development of the relevant international standards.\n5. In paragraph 1, ‘relevant authority’ means:\n(a) in the case of plants, plant products and other objects which are introduced into Great Britain from a third country, the national plant protection organisation of that third country;\n(b) in the case of plants, plant products and other objects which are introduced into Great Britain from Northern Ireland and are not part of a relevant NI trade unit, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(b)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(1) substituted (27.1.2021) by The Plant Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/79), regs. 1(2), 3(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(b)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 71(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(b)(iii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Art. 71(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(b)(iv) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(1)(d) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(b)(v) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(c)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(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), 31(3)(c)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(d)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(d)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(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), 31(3)(d)(iii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(e) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Art. 71(5) inserted (27.1.2021) by The Plant Health (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/79), regs. 1(2), 3(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Art. 71 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(3)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
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  "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."
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