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The Windsor Framework (Retail Movement Scheme: Plant and Animal Health) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2024

Sep 2024

Legal

Jurisdiction: Great Britain

Commencement: 2^nd September 2024 and 26^th 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

Mini Summary

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.
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.

Duties

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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

The entry requirements for importing cut herbs (basil) and cut flowers (carnations, roses, Gypsophila, Chrysanthemum) originating from non-EU third countries into Great Britain, are updated. This has been done in order to align the entry requirements for plants to be the same as the rest of the world.

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

The import requirements into Great Britain for cut roses from non-EU countries are updated to prevent the introduction of the pests Thaumatotibia leucotreta and Phytophthora ramorum.

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