PART 6Registration, authorisations and certificates relating to plant health
Applications for registration19.
An application for registration pursuant to Article 66(1) of the F1... Plant Health Regulation which is to be submitted to an appropriate authority must be submitted in the manner and form required by the appropriate authority.
Other applications20.
(1)
The following applications must be made to the appropriate authority in the manner and form required by the appropriate authority—
(a)
an application for a temporary authorisation to permit a relevant activity for official testing, scientific or educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding;
(b)
an application for an authorisation referred to in the following provisions of the F2... Plant Health Regulation—
(i)
Article 64(2),
(ii)
Article 89(1), or
(iii)
Article 98(1);
(2)
In this regulation—
“relevant activity” means an activity which would otherwise be prohibited under the F5... Plant Health Regulation F6... or another F7... plant health rule involving—
- (a)
the introduction of a plant pest or a plant, plant product or other object into Wales,
- (b)
the movement of a plant pest or a plant, plant product or other object within Wales,
- (c)
the holding of a controlled plant pest or a plant, plant product or other object at premises in Wales, or
- (d)
the multiplication of a plant pest at premises in Wales.
Authorisations for other purposes21.
F8(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 Wales, the movement within Wales, or the holding or multiplication in Wales, 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 F9, or by virtue of, the F10... Plant Health Regulation F11, any regulations made under the Plant Health Regulation or the Official Controls Regulation, 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.
F12(3)
In paragraph (1)—
“potential quarantine plant pest” (“pla planhigion cwarantin posibl”) means a plant pest which is not a F17GB 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.
Authorisations granted by an appropriate authority22.
(1)
An authorisation granted by an appropriate authority for the purposes of the F18... Plant Health Regulation F19or the Official Controls Regulation or F20for the purposes of, or under these Regulations must be in writing and may be granted—
(a)
subject to conditions;
(b)
for an indefinite period or a specified period.
(2)
An authorisation granted by an appropriate authority may permit the appropriate authority to modify, suspend or revoke the authorisation at any time by notice in writing.