{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1012/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1012/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/1012",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1012 of 12 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council by derogating from the rules on the designation of control points and from the minimum requirements for border control posts (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1012",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exemptions for border control posts for imports of unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood",
  "text": "1. The exemption provided for in paragraph 2 shall apply to border control posts which ... only operate at the time of performing controls on consignments of unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood (‘the border control posts concerned’).\n2. The competent authority may designate the border control posts concerned and exempt them from the obligations referred to in Article 64(3)(a), (c) and (f) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, provided the following conditions are fulfilled:\n(a) arrangements are in place to prevent at all times any undetected entry into Great Britain of consignments of unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood;\n(b) the border control post concerned has access to a sufficient number of suitably qualified staff in the form of a mobile official control team of the competent authorities, able to reach the border control post concerned before the arrival of the consignments to perform official controls on unprocessed logs and sawn and chipped wood;\n(c) the competent authorities' mobile official control team provides or has immediate access to:\n(i)the equipment, premises and other facilities referred to in Article 64(3)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625; and\n(ii)the technology and IT equipment referred to in Article 64(3)(f) of that Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 18(6)(a) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 18(6)(b)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 18(6)(b)(ii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1012/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:18.291716+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."
}