PART 3INTERNAL COMMUNITY CONTROLS ON MOVEMENT

Requirements for plant passports20

1

Subject to paragraph (7) and article 21, the landing in or movement within F1a relevant territory by any person of any relevant material of a description specified in Part A of Schedule 6 comprising EC transit goods or material F2originating in that relevant territory or another part of the F15European Union is prohibited, unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport.

2

Subject to paragraph (7) and articles 21 and 22, the landing in or movement within F3a relevant territory by any person of any relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 6 comprising EC transit goods or material F4originating in that relevant territory or another part of the F15European Union is prohibited, unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for F5that relevant territory as a protected zone.

3

No person shall move within F6a relevant territory any relevant material, which if comprised of EC transit goods or relevant material consigned to F7either relevant territory from another part of the F15European Union would be subject to paragraph (1), after the phytosanitary certificate accompanying it has been officially stamped in accordance with article 12(7)(a) unless it is accompanied by a plant passport.

4

Subject to article 22, no person shall move within F8a relevant territory any relevant material, which if comprised of EC transit goods or material consigned to F9either relevant territory from another part of the F15European Union would be subject to paragraph (2), after the phytosanitary certificate accompanying it has been officially stamped in accordance with article 12(7)(a) unless it is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for F10the relevant territory in which the movement takes place as a protected zone.

5

Subject to article 21, no person shall consign from F11a relevant territory to another part of the F15European Union any relevant material of a description specified in Part A of Schedule 7 unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport.

6

Subject to article 21, no person shall consign from F12a relevant territory to a protected zone in another part of the F15European Union any relevant material of a description specified in Part B of Schedule 7 unless that relevant material is accompanied by a plant passport which is valid for that protected zone.

7

The prohibitions imposed on landing by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply to relevant material in respect of which F13the appropriate authority have agreed, pursuant to an agreement described in article 12(6), to carry out a plant health check.

F148

Subject to article 21, no person shall move within England or Scotland or consign from England or Scotland to another part of the European Union any relevant material of the following description unless it is accompanied by the appropriate documentation—

a

trees of Castanea Mill. intended for planting; or

b

trees, other than seeds, of Platanus L. intended for planting.

9

In paragraph (8), “appropriate documentation” means—

a

in the case of trees of Castanea Mill. intended for planting, official documentation confirming that they have been grown throughout their life in a place of production in a country in which Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr is known not to occur or an area established and maintained as an area free from Cryphonectria parasitica (Murrill) Barr in accordance with ISPM No 4;

b

in the case of trees, other than seeds, of Platanus L. intended for planting, official documentation confirming that they have been grown throughout their life in a place of production in a country in which Ceratocystis fimbriata f. spp. platani Walter is known not to occur or an area established and maintained as an area free from Ceratocystis fimbriata f. spp. platani Walter in accordance with ISPM No 4.