{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1758",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-great-britain-order-1987",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Exports of plants etc. to Member States",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (6) of this article, no person shall export from Great Britain to a Member State any consignment of plants or growing medium of a description specified in column 2 of Part I of Schedule 4 unless the consignment is accompanied by—\n(a) a phytosanitary certificate issued by an authorised officer; or\n(b) in the case of a consignment to which this sub-paragraph applies (and without prejudice to paragraph (4) of this article), a reforwarding phytosanitary certificate issued by an authorised officer.\n(2) No phytosanitary certificate shall be issued for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) of this article unless the entire consignment or a representative sample taken from it, its packaging (and, where necessary, the vehicle in which it is carried) have been examined by an inspector in order to ensure that the consignment complies with such requirements of the Member State concerned as are adopted in accordance with the provisions of Directive 77/93/EEC.\n(3) Paragraph (1)(b) of this article applies to a consignment which—\n(a) is imported from a Member State or a third country;\n(b) is to be re-exported to a Member State; and\n(c) when imported, was accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate.\n(4) No person shall export from Great Britain to a Member State any consignment of plants or growing medium which—\n(a) is of a description specified in Schedule 4, and\n(b) originated in another Member State or a third country\nunless the consignment is accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate issued in the country of origin or by a certified copy of that certificate.\n(5) Applications for phytosanitary certificates or reforwarding phytosanitary certificates shall be made to the appropriate Minister in such form and manner, and giving such information, as he may require.\n(6) Paragraph (1) of this article does not apply to the export from Great Britain of any consignment of plants or growing medium which is imported from a Member State or third country and re-exported to a Member State without being stored, repacked or split up in Great Britain.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1991/240",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Health (Great Britain) (Amendment) Order 1991"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1758/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:19:34.545107+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."
}