The Plant Health (England) (Amendment) Order 2015

Article 28 (conditions for maintaining registration as a plant trader)

5.  In article 28—

(a) for the heading, substitute “Conditions for maintaining registration as a plant trader and other trade-related conditions”;

(b) after paragraph (2), insert—

“(3) A professional operator who supplies or is supplied with specified plants within the meaning of Article 1(b) of Decision (EU) 2015/789 which have been grown for at least part of their life in, or have been moved through, an area established in accordance with Article 4 of that Decision, must—

(a) keep a record of each lot of the plants supplied by the professional operator and the name of the professional operator to whom the lot was supplied for three years from the date on which it was supplied;

(b) keep a record of each lot of the plants received by the professional operator and the name of the professional operator who supplied the lot for three years from the date on which it was received; and

(c) immediately following the dispatch or receipt of any such lot, notify the Secretary of State in writing of the details specified in Article 10(4) of Decision (EU) 2015/789 in respect of that lot.

(4) In paragraph (3), “professional operator” has the meaning given in Article 1(d) of Decision (EU) 2015/789.”