{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-phytophthora-ramorum-great-britain-order-2002/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1478",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Forestry) (Phytophthora ramorum) (Great Britain) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-forestry-phytophthora-ramorum-great-britain-order-2002",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Susceptible material\nConditions of landing\n1 Trees (other than fruit or seeds) with leaves, of:\nAcer macrophyllum\nAesculus californica\nLithocarpus densiflorus\n2 Trees (other than trees with leaves) of:\nAcer macrophyllum\nAesculus californica\nLithocarpus densiflorus\nQuercus L. (all species)\n3 Isolated bark of:\nAcer macrophyllum\nAesculus californica\nLithocarpus densiflorus\n(a) A phytosanitary certificate or re-forwarding phytosanitary certificate (“the certificate”) must accompany the susceptible material;\n(b) the certificate must contain a declaration that the material originates in an area recognised by the official plant health service of the country from which the material originates as being free from Phytophthora ramorum; and\n(c) the name of the area from where the material originates must be specified on the certificate under the heading “place of origin”.\n4 Wood including wood which has not kept its natural round surface of:\nAcer macrophyllum\nAesculus californica\nLithocarpus densiflorus\n(1) The same conditions as apply for items 1, 2 and 3 in column 1 above must be met; or\n(2) in the case of wood which does not satisfy those conditions, and without prejudice to article 3(1) of the principal Order and Schedule 2, Part A, Schedule 3, and Schedule 4, Part A of the principal Order, the wood must be\nstripped of its bark;\naccompanied by a phytosanitary certificate or reforwarding phytosanitary certificate (“the certificate”); and\nmeet one of the following conditions:\n(a) the wood shall be squared so as to remove entirely the rounded surface;\n(b) the certificate shall contain a declaration that the moisture content of the wood does not exceed 20% expressed as a percentage of dry matter; or\n(c) the certificate shall contain a declaration that the wood has been disinfected by an appropriate hot-air or hot-water treatment; or in the case of sawn wood (whether or not residual bark remains attached to the wood after the bark stripping process) there shall be evidence by a mark “kiln-dried”, “K.D.” or another internationally recognised mark, put on the wood or its packaging in accordance with current commercial usage, that it has undergone kiln-drying to below 20% moisture content, expressed as a percentage of dry matter, at time of manufacture, achieved through an appropriate time/temperature schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Note that it is already prohibited to land in Great Britain from any non-European country trees with leaves (excluding fruit and seeds) of the fourth genera of forest tree identified as susceptible to the pest Phytophthora ramorum, that is, Quercus L.—see article 3(1)(c) of the principal Order, and Schedule 3, item 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The landing of isolated bark of Quercus L. (except the species Quercus suber) which originates in North American countries is prohibited under article 3(1)(c) and Schedule 3, item 6 of the principal Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The landing of wood of this description of the genera Quercus L. originating in North American countries is controlled under article 3(2) and Schedule 4, Part A, item 25 of the principal Order."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1478/schedule",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:55:12.156574+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."
}