{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-829/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-829/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "General provisions concerning monitoring of compliance",
  "text": "The competent authority shall monitor the specified activities to ensure that all of the following requirements are fulfilled:\n(a)any infestations of the specified material by any specified pests which are not authorised under this Regulation, or by any other pests considered a risk to Great Britain, and detected during the specified activities, are notified immediately by the person responsible for the activities to the competent authority. Where the material is a specified pest itself, the monitoring shall concern its potential infestation by other specified pests not authorised under this Regulation, or any other pests considered a risk to Great Britain by the competent authority, and detected during the specified activities;\n(b)any event resulting in the escape, or likelihood of escape, of pests referred to in point (a) into the environment, is notified immediately to the competent authority by the person responsible for the activities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 2(2)(b), 47(9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/829/article/8",
    "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."
}