# The Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order further amends the Import and Export (Plant Health) (Great Britain) Order 1980 by—
(a) prohibiting the landing in Great Britain of Frankliniella occidentalis (Western Flower Thrips) (article 2(a)); and
(b) adding a further condition to those subject to which the landing in Great Britain of rooted plants and unrooted vegetative propagating material is permitted. This condition is that the consignment is accompanied by an official statement that the plants comprising it were officially examined immediately prior to export and found to be free from Western Flower Thrips and were grown at a place of production at which Western Flower Thrips is not know to have occurred during the four weeks prior to the date on which the plants were removed from such place (article 2(b)).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/428/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/import-and-export-plant-health-great-britain-amendment-order-1987/note
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