The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

Amendment of regulation 29

14.  In regulation 29 (powers of entry)—

(a) for paragraph (1)(a) substitute—

“(a) performing official controls to verify that—

(i) an operator is complying with the Official Controls Regulation,

(ii) a professional operator is complying with the EU Plant Health Regulation,

(iii) a person is complying with these Regulations, or

(iv) any plants, plant products or other objects which are subject to an EU plant health rule or to the requirements in schedule 1 comply with that rule or those requirements”,

(b) for paragraph (6) substitute—

“(6) A plant health inspector may—

(a) be accompanied by—

(i) a representative of the European Commission or an authorised officer of any competent authority designated in the Union territory for the purposes of the EU Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation, or

(ii) such other persons as the inspector considers necessary, and

(b) bring onto the premises such equipment and vehicles as the inspector considers necessary.

(6A) A plant health inspector who is accompanied by a person mentioned in paragraph (6)(a)(i) may—

(a) show the person any documents or records which are inspected by the inspector under paragraph (4)(e), and

(b) make copies, or require copies to be made, of those documents or records for that person.”.