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12.—(1) The appropriate authority may by regulations modify the Plant Health Regulations to make provision for or in connection with the recognition of any phytosanitary measure adopted by a third country where the third country has objectively demonstrated to the national plant protection organisation of the United Kingdom that the measure is equivalent to a domestic phytosanitary measure.
(2) Regulations under paragraph (1) may (among other things)—
(a)modify the domestic phytosanitary measure concerned to recognise the equivalence of the phytosanitary measure of the third country; and
(b)specify the relevant material to which, and the conditions under which, the recognition of equivalence applies.
(3) In this regulation, “domestic phytosanitary measure” means a phytosanitary measure specified in the Plant Health Regulations that applies in relation to a plant pest or relevant material under or by virtue of a relevant Plant Health Order.
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