The Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993

Articles 2(1) and 18

SCHEDULE 8

PART A REQUIREMENTS FOR PLANT PASSPORTS

1.  A plant passport shall comprise either an official label or an official label together with a document of a kind normally used for trade purposes, containing the information specified in paragraph 4 or (as the case may be) 5 below.

2.—(1) An official label shall not have been previously used and shall be made of material suitable to its purposes under this Order.

(2) The Commissioners may approve a form of adhesive label for use as an official label.

3.—(1) The information contained in a plant passport shall be—

(a) given in at least one of the official languages of the European Communities, and

(b) printed, except where it would not be reasonably practicable to do so.

(2) Where the information is printed, it shall be printed in block capitals.

(3) Where the information is not printed, it shall be given in typescript or written in block capitals.

(4) Where a plant passport refers to the botanical name of a tree or tree product, the name shall include its Latin name.

4.  Where a plant passport comprises only an official label, it shall contain the information specified in paragraph 6 below.

5.  Where the plant passport comprises an official label and an additional document—

(a) the official label shall contain at least the information specified in sub-paragraphs (a)-(e) of paragraph 6 below, and

(b) the documents taken together shall contain all the information specified in that paragraph, and may also contain, clearly separated from that information, any other information relevant for the purpose of labelling the material to which the plant passport relates.

6.  The information referred to in paragraphs 4 and 5 above shall be—

(a) the title “EEC-plant passport”;

(b) the code for Great Britain (“UK”);

(c) the code for the Forestry Commission (“FC”);

(d) the registration number issued to the forestry trader by the Commissioners, indicating that he is authorised to attach the plant passport;

(e) the week number of the date when the plant passport is attached to the material in question, or a serial or batch number identifying that material;

(f) the botanical name of the material in question;

(g) the quantity of the material in question (number of trees, volume or weight of wood or isolated bark, etc.);

(h) if the plant passport is valid for a protected zone, the marking “ZP” and the code for the protected zone;

(i) in the case of a replacement plant passport, the marking “RP”, and the information at sub-paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) above, identifying the forestry trader who attached the original plant passport;

(j) in the case of imported material, the name of the country of origin of the material or (if different) the country from which the material was consigned to Great Britain.