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24. The appropriate UK plant health authority may lift the demarcation that applies to a demarcated area if—
(a)the plant pest is not detected in the demarcated area over a period of five years in official surveys carried pursuant to paragraph 1(h) of Schedule 9 or by the monitoring referred to in paragraph 16(g); and
(b)where the buffer zone has been reduced in accordance with paragraph 7, one year after the date of its initial establishment if the following conditions are met—
(i)the measures described in paragraphs 7(a) to (d) have been taken and, as a result, the appropriate UK plant health authority is able to conclude with a high degree of confidence that the initial presence of the plant pest was an isolated case and no further spread has occurred in the demarcated area; and
(ii)as close as practically possible to the time of lifting, official tests have been carried out in the demarcated area in accordance with international standards, which targeted symptomatic plants and asymptomatic plants in the proximity of the symptomatic plants.
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