{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-78.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/78",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "UK plant passports",
  "text": "1. A UK plant passport shall be an official label to be used for:\n(a) the movement of plants, plant products and other objects described in Articles 79 and 80 (including the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into Great Britain from a CD territory); and\n(b) the movement of plants, plant products and other objects from Great Britain to a CD territory.\n2. Articles 83 to 92 and 93 to 95 apply in relation to any UK plant passport issued in Great Britain.\n3. Article 92a applies to any UK plant passport issued in a CD territory that accompanies plants, plant products or other objects that are introduced into Great Britain from that CD territory and are subsequently moved within Great Britain.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 78 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(12)(b) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 78 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(12)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/78",
    "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."
}