The Official Controls (Plant Health) and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Amendments to exemptions from the requirement for prior notification of entry into Great Britain of relevant goods from a relevant third country during the transitional staging period

2.—(1) Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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 is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 15 of Annex 6, in the text inserted as “Annex 8”(1), in the table—

(a) omit the row with the entry “Root and tubercle vegetables” in the first column;

(b) after the row with the entry “Leaves of Manihot esculenta Crantz” in the first column insert—

“Plants of Asparagus officinalis L., other than stems covered during their entire life by soil

Other vegetables, fresh or chilled; Asparagus.

18B”;

(c) omit the row with the entry “Fragaria L., Malus Mill., Persea americana Mill., Pyrus L., Rubus L., Vaccinium L. and Vitis L.” in the first column.

(1)

Paragraph 15 of Annex 6 to EUR 2017/625 modifies that Regulation during the ‘transitional staging period’ (defined in paragraph 2 of Annex 6 to that Regulation as read with S.I. 2021/809 as amended by S.I. 2024/540) so that Annex 8 is read as being inserted after Annex 6.