CHAPTER II

Quarantine pests
Section 2

GB quarantine pests

Eradication of GB quarantine pests
Article 17
1
Where one of the situations referred to in points (a) and (b) of Article 11(2) is officially confirmed, the competent authority shall immediately take all necessary phytosanitary measures to eradicate the relevant GB quarantine pest or provisional GB quarantine pest from the area concerned. Those measures shall be taken in accordance with Annex II.
That obligation to eradicate shall not apply where assimilated direct legislation relating to plant health provides or regulations made under Article 28(1) provide otherwise.
2
The competent authority shall without delay investigate the source of the presence of the GB quarantine pest or provisional GB quarantine pest concerned, in particular where that presence may be related to movements of plants, plant products or other objects, and the possibility that the pest concerned has been spread to further plants, plant products or other objects by those movements.
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4
The measures referred to in paragraph 1 and the investigations referred to in paragraph 2 shall be taken irrespective of whether the pest is present on public or private premises.
Word in Art. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(b)(i)(bb) (with regs. 53, 55)
Word in Ch. 2 Section 2 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(2) (with regs. 53, 55)
Art. 17(1) excluded (24.5.2023) by The Plant Health and Phytosanitary Conditions (Oak Processionary Moth and Plant Pests) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/497), regs. 1(2), 7
Word in Art. 17 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(a) (with regs. 53, 55)
Words in Art. 17 inserted (20.12.2022) by The Plant Health and Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1367), regs. 1(1), 2(2)
Word in Art. 17(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(c) (with regs. 53, 55)
Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(b)(i)(aa) (with regs. 53, 55)
Art. 17(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(d) (with regs. 53, 55)
Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1482), regs. 1(2)(b), 27(16)(b)(ii) (with regs. 53, 55)
Words in Art. 17(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 115(3)