Regulation 18 Traceability
A professional operator to whom a trade unit of plants for planting, other objects or a consignment with a Northern Ireland plant health label has been supplied must keep a record allowing that operator to identify the professional operator who supplied it.
A professional operator supplying a trade unit of plants for planting, other objects or a consignment with a Northern Ireland plant health label must keep a record allowing that operator to identify the professional operator to whom it was supplied.
An authorised operator who issues a Northern Ireland plant health label, and a professional operator to whom the competent authority issues a Northern Ireland plant health label, must record the following information as regards that Northern Ireland plant health label—
where applicable, the professional operator who supplied the trade unit, other object or consignment concerned;
the professional operator located in Great Britain or in Northern Ireland to whom the trade unit, other object or consignment concerned was supplied;
the contents of the Northern Ireland plant health label.
Professional operators must keep the records referred to in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) for at least three years after the date on which the plant for planting, consignment of seed potatoes or other object concerned was supplied to or by them.
Professional operators referred to in paragraph (4) must provide the information in the records referred to in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3) to the competent authority on request.