GB quarantine pests, provisional GB quarantine pests, PFA quarantine pests and GB regulated non-quarantine pests; and

measures in relation to the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into Great Britain and the movement of plants, plant products and other objects within Great Britain to reduce the risks in connection with those pests to an acceptable level.

‘practically free from pests’ means the extent of presence of pests, other than F16GB quarantine pests or F23PFA quarantine pests, on the plants for planting or fruit plants, which is sufficiently low to ensure acceptable quality and usefulness of those plants;

‘official statement’ means a phytosanitary certificate, as provided for in Article 71 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031, a F22UK plant passport, as provided for in Article 78 of that Regulation, the mark on wood packaging material, wood or other objects, as referred to in Article 96 of that Regulation, or the official attestations as referred to in Article 99 of that Regulation;

‘systems approach’ means the integration of different risk management measures, at least two of which act independently, and which, when applied together, achieve the appropriate level of protection against F37GB quarantine pests, provisional GB quarantine pests and PFA quarantine pests;

‘EPPO code’, in relation to a pest, means the code for that pest in the EPPO code database maintained by the European and Meditteranean Plant Protection Organization;

‘wood packaging material’ means wood in the form of packing cases, boxes, crates, drums or similar packings, pallets, box pallets or other load boards, pallet collars or dunnage, whether or not actually in use in the transport of objects of any kind.

inspections, sampling and testing of the plants for planting concerned or the plants from which they originate;

the origin of the respective plants for planting from the areas or sites, which are free from, or with physical protection from, the RNQPs concerned;

treatments of the plants for planting concerned, or the plants from which they originate;

the production of the plants for planting.

exceptions concerning the supply of plants for planting to official testing and inspection bodies;

exceptions concerning the supply of plants for planting as grown to providers of services for processing or packaging, under the condition that the provider of services does not acquire title to the plants thus supplied and the identity of the plants is ensured;

exceptions concerning the supply of plants for planting under certain conditions to providers of services for the production of certain agricultural raw materials, intended for industrial purposes, or seed propagation for that purpose;

exceptions for plants for planting intended for scientific purposes, selection work, other test or trial purposes;

exceptions from marketing requirements concerning plants for planting not finally certified;

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exceptions from marketing requirements for plants for planting shown to be intended for export to third countries.