The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Order 2018

Interpretation

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2.  In this Order—

“certificate” means a phytosanitary certificate or a phytosanitary certificate for re-export;

“consignment” means a quantity of goods being covered by a single document required for customs formalities or for other formalities, such as a single phytosanitary certificate or single alternative document or mark and may be composed of one or more lots;

“inspector” means any person authorised by the Scottish Ministers to be an inspector for the purposes of the principal plant health Order;

“IPC document” means an intra-EU phytosanitary communication document, being an official document which—

(a)

is issued in relation to a consignment which is intended to be exported from another member State to a third country; and

(b)

communicates to the national plant protection organisations of other member States that certain phytosanitary procedures have been applied;

“phytosanitary certificate” means a certificate which complies with the relevant requirements of articles 7 and 15 of the principal plant health Order(1);

“phytosanitary certificate for re-export” means a certificate for re-export which complies with the relevant requirements of articles 7 and 15 of the principal plant health Order;

“premises” includes any land, building, vessel, vehicle, aircraft, hovercraft or freight container;

“principal plant health Order” means the Plant Health (Scotland) Order 2005(2);

“soil” includes any medium used for the growing of plant material and “soil sample” is construed accordingly; and

“third country” means a country or territory other than one within the European Union.

(1)

S.S.I. 2005/613; articles 7 and 15 were amended by S.I. 2011/1043, article 6(1); article 15 was also amended by S.S.I. 2016/83.