{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2123/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2123/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/2123",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2123 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for the cases where and the conditions under which identity checks and physical checks on certain goods may be performed at control points and documentary checks may be performed at distance from border control posts (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2123",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Conditions for the performance of documentary checks on consignments of plants, plant products and other objects performed at a distance from a border control post",
  "text": "1. The performance of documentary checks referred to in Article 7 shall be subject to compliance with the following conditions:\n(a) the competent authorities referred to in Article 7 shall perform documentary checks on:\n(i)official certificates and results of laboratory tests uploaded in the appropriate computerised information management system by the competent authorities of the border control post of arrival of consignment,\n(ii)official certificates and results of laboratory tests uploaded in the appropriate computerised information management system by the operator where the competent authorities of the border control post have checked that they correspond to the original certificates or results of laboratory tests,\n(iii)official certificates and results of laboratory tests submitted in the appropriate computerised information management system by the competent authorities of third countries, or\n(iv)original official certificates, when the competent authorities referred to in Article 7 are part of the designated border control post as referred to in Article 4(2) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1012;\n(b) the consignment shall not be transported to the control point for identity and physical checks by the operator from the border control post until the competent authorities referred to in Article 7 have informed the competent authorities of the border control post of the satisfactory results of the documentary checks.\n2. Where the consignment of plants, plant products and other objects is to be transported by the operator to a control point for the performance of identity checks and physical checks, Articles 2, 4 and 5 shall apply.\n3. A consignment of plants, plant products and other objects may be transported by the operator from the border control post to a control point for the performance of documentary checks, provided that the control point is under the supervision of the same competent authority as the border control post.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1)(a)(i) substituted (E.W.S.) (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), 25(10) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1)(a)(ii) substituted (E.W.S.) (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), 25(10) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(1)(a)(iii) substituted (E.W.S.) (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), 25(10) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "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 (OJ L 165, 21.6.2019, p. 4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2123/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:56.288493+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."
}