The Official Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025
23 January 2025
Amends:
• Assimilated Regulation 2017/625 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products
• Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 as regards protective measures against pests of plants
Comes into force: 30th January 2025
Jurisdiction: GB
Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072
Various lists contained within the Annexes are updated with regards to quarantine pests and non-quarantine pests.
Changes are also made to add requirements that certain imported plants have been grown in a registered place of production, and the list of plants and plant products which require UK plant passports is updated.
Assimilated Regulation 2017/625
The list of goods (specific fruit and vegetables) that are exempt from the requirement for pre-notification when those goods are imported into Great Britain from an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland is updated.
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• Assimilated Regulation 2017/625 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products
• Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072 establishing uniform conditions for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 as regards protective measures against pests of plants
Comes into force: 30th January 2025
Jurisdiction: GB
Assimilated Regulation 2019/2072
Various lists contained within the Annexes are updated with regards to quarantine pests and non-quarantine pests.
Changes are also made to add requirements that certain imported plants have been grown in a registered place of production, and the list of plants and plant products which require UK plant passports is updated.
Assimilated Regulation 2017/625
The list of goods (specific fruit and vegetables) that are exempt from the requirement for pre-notification when those goods are imported into Great Britain from an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland is updated.
For more information, click here.