PART 6E+WRegistration, authorisations and certificates relating to plant health

Authorisations for other purposesE+W

21.—[F1(1) The appropriate authority may grant an authorisation to permit—

(a)the carrying out of any activity specified in a plant health derogation;

(b)the introduction into England, the movement within England, or the holding or multiplication in England, of a potential quarantine plant pest for official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding; or

(c)the carrying out of any other activity which requires the approval of the appropriate authority under [F2, or by virtue of,] the F3... Plant Health Regulation, the Official Controls Regulation [F4, any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation,] or these Regulations.]

(2) An application for any such authorisation must be made to the appropriate authority in the manner and form required by the appropriate authority.

[F5(3) In paragraph (1)—

“plant health derogation” means—

(a)

a derogation from provisions of the F6... Plant Health Regulation which is set out in [F7retained EU law or regulations made] under the F6... Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation; F8...

(b)

F8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“potential quarantine plant pest” means a plant pest which is not a [F9GB quarantine pest or a provisional GB quarantine pest], but which, in the opinion of the appropriate authority, fulfils the criteria set out in Subsection 1 of Section 3 of Annex 1 to that Regulation or may fulfil the criteria in Subsection 2 of that Section.] 

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 21 in force at 14.1.2020, see reg. 1(1)