The Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024

Amendments relating to the requirement for plant health certification: England and Wales and Scotland

4.—(1) The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(1) (“the 2020 Regulations”) are amended, as they apply in relation to England and Wales and in relation to Scotland, as follows.

(2) In regulation 52 (transitional provision: plants, plant products and other objects from EU Member States)—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) This regulation applies to plants, plant products and other objects which—

(a) originate in, or are dispatched from, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland; and

(b) are introduced into Great Britain on or after 31st January 2024 and before the end of the transitional staging period.”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) Article 72(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 does not apply in relation to plants which—

(i) are of a kind other than those listed in Schedule 2; and

(ii) meet the conditions specified in paragraph (2A) or (2B);”;

(c) after paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) The conditions specified in this paragraph are that the plants—

(a) are introduced into Great Britain as part of a traveller’s personal luggage; and

(b) are not to be used for professional or commercial purposes.

(2B) The condition specified in this paragraph is that the plants are of a category specified in column 1, and of a description specified in the corresponding entry in column 2, of the table in Schedule 2A.

(2C) Article 72(1) does not apply in relation to plants, plant products or other objects of a kind other than those listed in Schedule 2 which are dispatched from an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland before 31st January 2024.”;

(d) omit paragraph (3).

(3) After Schedule 2, insert Schedule 2A contained in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2020/1482. Regulation 52 was amended by S.I. 2021/429, 1229. It was also amended in relation to Scotland by S.S.I. 2021/493 and in relation to England and Wales by S.I. 2021/1443.