CHAPTER VI Certification of plants, plant products and other objects

Section 1Phytosanitary certificates required for the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into Great Britain

Article 71Phytosanitary certificate for introduction into F1Great Britain

1.

A phytosanitary certificate for introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into F2Great Britain shall be a document, issued by a F3relevant authority, which fulfils the conditions of Article 76, has the contents set out in Part A of Annex V, or, where applicable, Part B of Annex V, and certifies that the plant, plant product or other object concerned complies with all of the following requirements:

(a)

it is free from F4GB quarantine pests and provisional GB quarantine pests;

(b)

it complies with the provisions of Article 37(1) concerning the presence of F5GB regulated non-quarantine pests on plants for planting;

(c)

it complies with the requirements referred to in Article 41F6(1) or, where applicable, Article 54F6(1);

(d)

where applicable, it complies with F7any requirements specified in regulations made under Article 28(1) or 30(1).

2.

F8Where one or more options are specified for the purposes of meeting any such requirements, the phytosanitary certificate shall specify under the heading ‘Additional Declaration’ which specific requirement is fulfilled F9...

3.

Where F10required by regulations made under Article 44(1), the phytosanitary certificate shall state that the plants, plant products or other objects concerned comply with phytosanitary measures recognised F11for the purposes of those regulations as equivalent F12....

4.

The F13appropriate authority may by regulations amend Parts A and B of Annex V to adapt them to the development of the relevant international standards.

F14(5.

In paragraph 1, ‘relevant authority’ means:

(a)

in the case of plants, plant products and other objects which are introduced into Great Britain from a third country, the national plant protection organisation of that third country;

(b)

in the case of plants, plant products and other objects which are introduced into Great Britain from Northern Ireland and are not part of a relevant NI trade unit, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.