{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2122/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2122/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/2122",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2122 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain categories of animals and goods exempted from official controls at border control posts, specific controls on passengers’ personal luggage and on small consignments of goods sent to natural persons which are not intended to be placed on the market and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2122",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Plants, plant products and other objects intended for scientific purposes",
  "text": "1. Plants, plant products and other objects are exempted from identity and physical checks at border control posts other than controls carried out pursuant to Article 15(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014, provided that they are intended for scientific purposes in accordance with Article 48(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031.\n2. The competent authority of the border control post of first arrival of the consignment shall perform documentary checks on the authorisation referred to in Article 48(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031. In case of identified or suspected non-compliance, the competent authority of the border control post of first arrival may perform identity and physical checks on the consignment or request such checks to be carried out by the person responsible for the quarantine station or the confinement facility that has been designated by the competent authority.\n3. If the competent authority of the border control post of first arrival of the consignment requests identity and physical checks to be carried out by the person responsible for the quarantine station or the confinement facility that has been designated by the competent authority, the competent authority of the border control post of first arrival of the consignment shall inform through the appropriate computerised information management system the competent authority of the quarantine station or the confinement facility of the results of the documentary checks and of the subsequent departure of the consignment for the quarantine station or the confinement facility. The competent authority of the quarantine station or the confinement facility shall inform through the appropriate computerised information management system the competent authority of the border control post of first arrival of the consignment of the arrival of the consignment at the quarantine station or the confinement facility. The competent authority of the quarantine station or the confinement facility shall carry out identity and physical checks.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 35(5) (with reg. 46)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2122/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:56.344552+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."
}