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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-phytophthora-ramorum-wales-amendment-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2007/2715",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-phytophthora-ramorum-wales-amendment-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) (Wales) Order 2006",
  "text": "(1) The Plant Health (Phytophthora ramorum) (Wales) Order 2006 is amended as follows:\n(2) In article 6 (movement of susceptible material originating in Wales and elsewhere in the European Community or Switzerland), in paragraph (2), for “from its place of production” substitute “within the European Community”.\n(3) In article 15 (offences)—\n(a) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(a) subject to paragraph (1A), he or she contravenes or fails to comply with article 3, 4, 5(1), 6, 7(1) or (3), 8(1) or 11(1);”; and\n(b) after paragraph (1), insert—\n“(1A) Paragraph (1)(a) shall not apply where an article of any description is landed in Great Britain in contravention of a prohibition in this Order.”.\n(4) For Schedule 1, substitute—\nSCHEDULE 1\nArticles 4(a) and 10(1)\nSusceptible material\nRequirements to be met in respect of the issuing of any phytosanitary certificate accompanying susceptible material (“the certificate”)\nAcer macrophyllum Pursh.\nAcer pseudoplatanus L.\nAdiantum aleuticum (Rupr.) Paris\nAdiantum jordanii C. Muell.\nAesculus californica (Spach) Nutt.\nAesculus hippocastanum L.\nArbutus menziesii Pursch.\nArbutus unedo L.\nArctostaphylos spp. Adans\nCalluna vulgaris (L.) Hull\nCamellia spp. L.\nCastanea sativa Mill.\nFagus sylvatica L.\nFrangula californica (Eschsch.) Gray\nFrangula purshiana (DC.) Cooper\nFraxinus excelsior L.\nGriselinia littoralis (Raoul)\nHamamelis virginiana L.\nHeteromeles arbutifolia (Lindley) M. Roemer\nKalmia latifolia L.\nLaurus nobilis L.\nLeucothoe spp. D. Don\nLithocarpus densiflorus (Hook. & Arn.) Rehd.\nLonicera hispidula (Lindl.) Dougl. ex Torr. & Gray\nMagnolia spp. L.\nMichelia doltsopa Buch.-Ham. ex DC\nNothofagus obliqua (Mirbel) Blume\nOsmanthus heterophyllus (G. Don) P. S. Green\nParrotia persica (DC) C.A. Meyer\nPhotinia x fraseri Dress\nPieris spp. D. Don\nPseudotsuga menziesii (Mirbel) Franco\nQuercus spp. L.\nRhododendron spp. L., other than\nRhododendron simsii Planch.\nRosa gymnocarpa Nutt.\nSalix caprea L.\nSequoia sempervirens (Lamb. ex D. Don) Endl.\nSyringa vulgaris L.\nTaxus spp. L.\nTrientalis latifolia (Hook)\nUmbellularia californica (Hook. & Arn.) Nutt.\nVaccinium ovatum Pursh\nViburnum spp. L.”.\n(a) Either—\n(i) the certificate must contain an additional declaration that the material originates in an area recognised by the official plant health service of the country from which the material originates (“the relevant plant health service”) as being free from non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum, in which case the name of the area from where the material originates must be specified under “place of origin”; or\n(ii) the certificate must be issued only after official verification by the relevant plant health service that upon official inspections carried out during the last complete cycle of vegetation of the susceptible material the subject of the certificate, or upon laboratory testing of apparent symptoms of non- European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum, no signs of non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum have been found on susceptible material or any susceptible tree at the place of production; and\n(b) the certificate must be issued only after representative samples of the plants have been taken before shipment, and have been tested and found free from non-European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum in these tests, in which case the certificate shall be endorsed by the relevant plant health service under the heading “additional declaration” with the statement “tested and found free from non- European isolates of Phytophthora ramorum”.\n(5) In the second column of Schedule 2—\n(a) in paragraph (b), for “once” substitute “twice”; and\n(b) in paragraph (c)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (i), after “other susceptible material” insert “, including associated growing media and plant debris,”;\n(ii) omit “and” immediately after sub-paragraph (ii); and\n(iii) at the end of paragraph (iii) add—\n“; and\n(iv) appropriate phytosanitary measures have been taken within a radius of two metres from where infected plants have been standing”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006/1344 (W.134)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 49 and 50 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 (c. 2) provide respectively for forfeiture of goods improperly imported and penalties for improper importation of goods."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2007/2715/article/2",
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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."
}