The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020

Notification and presentation of Schedule 1 consignments

10.—(1) A “plant health entry document” is an entry document, in the form required by the Department, to be used—

(a) for the prior notification of the arrival of a Schedule 1 consignment at a border control post in Northern Ireland; and

(b) for the purposes of recording the outcome of official controls on the consignment and any decisions taken by a plant health inspector in relation to the consignment under this Part.

(2) The operator responsible for a Schedule 1 consignment must complete the relevant part of a plant health entry document and submit the completed part to the Department—

(a) in the case of a consignment which is to be brought in by air, at least four working hours before its expected arrival in Northern Ireland;

(b) in the case of a consignment which consists in whole or in part of unprocessed logs or sawn or chipped wood and is to be brought into a point of entry which only has a temporary border control post, at least three working days before its expected arrival in Northern Ireland;

(c) in the case of any other consignment, at least one working day before its expected arrival in Northern Ireland.

(3) In the case of a Schedule 1 consignment which is intended to be transhipped, the Department may by notice in writing require the responsible operator to provide it, by the time or date specified in the notice, with the information set out in the notice in relation to the proposed transhipment.

(4) The operator responsible for a Schedule 1 consignment must arrange for the consignment, together with the phytosanitary certificate or transit declaration accompanying the consignment, to be presented to the Department at the border control post of first arrival.

(5) In sub-paragraph (2)—

“temporary border control post” means a border control post which has been exempted from the obligations in Article 64(3)(a), (c) and (f) of the Official Controls Regulation pursuant to Article 4 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1012 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council by derogating from the rules on the designation of control points and from the minimum requirements for border control posts(1);

“working day” and “working hour” have the same meaning as in regulation 7(4).

(1)

O.J. No. L 165, 21.6.2019, p. 4.