{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-89",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-2031/article-89.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/89",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "89",
  "heading": "Authorisation of professional operators to issue UK plant passports",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall grant an authorisation to a professional operator to issue UK plant passports (‘the authorisation to issue UK plant passports’) for particular families, genera or species, and commodity types of plants, plant products and other objects where that professional operator complies with both of the following conditions:\n(a) it possesses the necessary knowledge to carry out the examinations referred to in Article 87 concerning the GB quarantine pests, provisional GB quarantine pests, PFA quarantine pests, CD quarantine pests and GB regulated non-quarantine pests that could affect the plants, plant products and other objects concerned, and concerning the signs of the presence of those pests, the symptoms caused by them, and the means to prevent the presence and spread of those pests;\n(b) it has in place systems and procedures enabling it to fulfil its obligations concerning traceability pursuant to Articles 69 and 70.\n2. The appropriate authority may by regulations supplement this Regulation by setting out criteria to be fulfilled by the professional operators in order for them to comply with the conditions set out in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article and procedures to ensure that those criteria are met.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 89(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(28)(b)(i) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 89(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(28)(b)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 89(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(28)(c) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 89 heading inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 31(28)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/2031/article/89",
    "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."
}