Jurisdiction: Great Britain
Commencement: 2nd September 2024 and 26th April 2025.
Amends:
- The Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022
- Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 as regards protective measures against pests of plants
- Assimilated Regulation 2017/625 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products
- The Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022 set out the frequency rate for conducting physical and identity checks of plant and plant products originating from a third country. The Secretary of State must determine, and publish online, the frequency rate for physical and identity checks of plant consignments. Plant health inspectors must perform these checks at the frequency specified.
- Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 as regards protective measures against pests of plants lists the different pests of plants and is supplementary to Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures against pests of plants, which is known as the ‘EU Plant Health Regulation’. This is because this Regulation establishes a number of annexes that the EU Plant Health Regulation refers to that list relevant plant pests, measures needed to reduce the risk of those pests, and plants that are prohibited from entering the EU.
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Assimilated Regulation 2017/625 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products sets out the official controls to be carried out on animals and relevant goods entering Great Britain by the relevant competent authorities.
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Amendment
Amendment to The Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022 & Assimilated Regulation 2017/625 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products
Amendment to Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 as regards protective measures against pests of plants
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