Article 5 Phytosanitary certificates and mill certificates to accompany imported trees, wood, isolated bark etc.
Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) of this article, where by virtue of article 3(d) the landing of any tree, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium is prohibited unless that tree, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium is accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate or mill certificate, such certificate shall have been issued in the country in which that tree, wood or isolated bark was grown, or that soil or growing medium originated.
A phytosanitary certificate or mill certificate which relates to trees, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium which are directly consigned to Great Britain from a Member State and are of a description specified in column 2 of Part I or II of Schedule 3 shall have been issued–
in the Member State from which they were so consigned, or
where the trees, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium to which it relates had been consigned from any other country before being consigned from that Member State to Great Britain, in that Member State or in one of the countries from which it had previously been consigned.
Where any tree, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium following its export from Great Britain is re-imported into Great Britain the phytosanitary certificate shall have been issued in the country from which the tree, wood, isolated bark, soil or growing medium was directly consigned to Great Britain.