{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-829/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-829/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/829",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/829 of 14 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants, authorising Member States to provide for temporary derogations in view of official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selections, or breeding",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-829",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Special provisions for official testing",
  "text": "By way of derogation from Articles 4, 5 and 6, the competent authority shall grant an authorisation for the performance of official testing, carried out by the competent authority or by the professional operator under the official supervision of the competent authority, if all of the following conditions are fulfilled:\n(a)the person responsible for the approved activities has notified official testing to the competent authority before it takes place;\n(b)that notification contains the nature and objectives of that official testing;\n(c)the notification contains a confirmation that the official testing is performed in quarantine stations or confinement facilities as referred to in point (c) of Article 5;\n(d)the official testing is carried out in such a way that there is no spread of specified pests during the handling and transport of the specified material prior, during, and after the official testing.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 2(2)(b), 47(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 2(2)(b), 47(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 2(2)(b), 47(8)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/829/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:22.479253+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."
}