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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-amendment-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2398",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-great-britain-amendment-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which applies to Great Britain, further amends the Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1989 (“the principal Order”) which implements Council Directive 77/93/EEC (OJ No. L26, 31.1.77, p. 20), as amended by the instruments listed in Schedule 6 of the principal Order.\nThis Order implements that part of Council Directive 89/439/EEC (OJ No. L212, 22.7.89, p.106) relating to forestry which allows the issue of a phytosanitary certificate in a country other than that of origin in certain circumstances (article 2(3)(b)and (4)(b)).\nThis Order also implements Commission Directive 90/490/EEC (OJ No. L271, 3.10.90, p.28). It alters the conditions of landing with regard to wood, wood chips, particles of wood, wood waste or scrap of conifers grown in Canada, China, Japan, Korea or the United States of America (article 2(6)and (7))and it prohibits the landing of fuel wood of conifers from those countries (article 2(5)).\nThis Order also makes minor amendments (article 2(2)and (8)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/2398/note",
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  "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."
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