{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-86",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-86.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/86",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Substantive requirements for a UK plant passport for movement into and within a GB pest-free area",
  "text": "A1. This Article applies to any plant, plant product or other object of a description specified in any entry in column (1) of the table in Annex 14 to the Phytosanitary Conditions Regulation which is to be introduced into, or moved within, a GB pest-free area specified in the corresponding entry in column (2) of the table.\n1. A UK plant passport may only be issued for the introduction into, or movement within, a GB pest-free area of a plant, plant product or other object if it fulfils all of the requirements of Article 85, and in addition the following requirements:\n(a) it is free from the PFA quarantine pest which relates to that GB pest-free area; and\n(b) it complies with the requirements referred to in Article 54(1).\n2. But where Article 33(2) applies, a UK plant passport may not be issued for plants, plant products or other objects originating in the demarcated area concerned and which may host the PFA quarantine pest concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 86(A1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(20)(b) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 86(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(20)(c)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 86(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(20)(c)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 86(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(20)(c)(iii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 86(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(20)(d)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 86(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(20)(d)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Art. 86 heading inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(20)(a)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 86 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(20)(a)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/86",
    "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."
}