The Plant Health, Seeds, Seed Potatoes and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2026
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7 Amendment of the Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020
(1) The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 are amended as follows. (2) In regulation 2 after paragraph (1) insert— (1A) Inthese Regulations— (a) any reference to a member State is to be read as if Northern Ireland were a member State of the European Union; (b) any reference to the Union or Union territory is to be read so as to include Northern Ireland. ; (3) In regulation 3(1), omit the following definitions— (i) “Commission Decision 98/109/EC”; (ii) “Commission Decision 2002/757/EC”; (iii) “Commission Decision 2004/200/EC”; (iv) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/138/EU”; (v) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/697/EU”; (vi) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789”; (vii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715”; (viii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/638”; (ix) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1739”; (x) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/885”; (xi) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1191”. (4) In regulation 4, at the end of paragraph (d) for the full stop substitute a semicolon and insert— (e) Chloridea virescens Fabricius; (f) Homonamagnanima Dyakonov; (g) Resseliellacitrifrugis Jiang; (h) Spodopteraornithogalli Guenée. . (5) In regulation 10(1)(c), omit “in Northern Ireland or” and “other”. (6) In regulation 11(1)(c), omit “in Northern Ireland or” and “other”. (7) Omit regulation 13. (8) In regulation 16(4), omit “(including representatives of the European Commission)”. (9) In regulation 24(1)(a), for “in another member State” substitute “in a member State outside Northern Ireland”. (10) In regulation 26(2)(a) and (c), for “another member State” substitute “a member State outside Northern Ireland”. (11) In regulation 28— (a) for paragraph (6)(a) substitute— (a) be accompanied by such other persons as the inspector considers necessary; ; (b) in paragraph (7), for “(6)(a)(i)” substitute “(6)(a)”; (c) in paragraph (8), for “(6)(a)(ii)” substitute “(6)(a)”. (12) In regulation 31— (a) for paragraph (4)(a) substitute— (a) be accompanied by such other persons as the inspector considers necessary; ; (b) in paragraph (5), for “(4)(a)(ii)” substitute “(4)(a)”. (13) In regulation 36(3), omit sub-paragraph (a). (14) In regulation 40— (a) for paragraph (1)(c) substitute— (c) paragraphs 2(1), (2), (3) or (4), 5(1) or (2), 11(1), 12(1), 13(1), 14, 19(1), 20(7), 21(2), 26(1), 27(7), 28(2) or 30(2) of Schedule 2; ; (b) in paragraph (1)(f), after “specified in” insert “Part 2A or”. (15) In Schedule 1— (a) in paragraph 4(3), for “Table 2” substitute “Table 1”; (b) immediately before paragraph 6— (i) in the Part 2 part heading omit “another part of”; (ii) in the paragraph heading omit “another part of”; (c) in paragraph 7, in Table 2, in row 3, in column 2, omit “, other than the United Kingdom”; (d) in paragraph 17— (i) in sub-paragraph (1), omit paragraphs (a) and (b); (ii) omit sub-paragraph (2). (16) In Schedule 3, after Part 2 insert— PART2A Commission Implementing Regulations etc. In the following table any reference to an EU instrument is to be construed as a reference to that EU instrument as amended from time to time. Provision of EU legislation | Subject matter (1) O.J. No. L 323, 19.12.2018, pp. 10-15, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/152 (O.J. No. L 2026/152, 23.1.2026). (2) O.J. No. L 321, 12.12.2019, pp. 99-103. (3) O.J. No. L 37, 10.2.2020, pp. 1–3, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/680 (O.J. No. L 125, 28.4.2022, pp. 1-3). (4) O.J. No. L 269, 17.8.2020, pp. 2–39, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2231 (O.J. No. L 2025/2231, 4.11.2025). (5) O.J. No. L 275, 24.8.2020, pp. 5–10, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1949 (O.J. No. L 2025/1949, 30.9.2025). (6) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 12–26, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2060 (O.J. No. L 2024/2060, 31.7.2024). (7) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 27–46, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2632 (O.J. No. L 2024/2632, 9.10.2024). (8) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 47–64, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2636 (O.J. No. L 2024/2636, 9.10.24). (9) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 65–76, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2382 (O.J. No. L 2024/2382, 10.9.2024). (10) O.J. No. L 268, 14.10.2022, pp. 13–15, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/356 (O.J. No. L 2025/356, 24.2.2025). (11) O.J. No. L 241, 29.9.2023, pp. 111–115. (12) O.J. No. L 2025/311, 17.2.2025. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 of 18 December 2018 establishing a provisional list of high risk plants, plant products or other objects, within the meaning of Article 42 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 and a list of plants for which phytosanitary certificates are not required for introduction into the Union, within the meaning of Article 73 of that Regulation Article 1 and the Annex | Prohibits the introduction of certain plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2125 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules concerning the performance of specific official controls of wood packaging material, notification of certain consignments and measures to be taken in cases of non-compliance Article 5(2) | Requires the operator to provide CHED details with any customs declaration. Article 6(1) | Requires the operator to destroy non-compliant wood packaging material when instructed by the Competent Authority. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/178 of 31 January 2020 on the presentation of information to passengers arriving from third countries and to clients of postal services and of certain professional operators concerning the prohibitions as regards the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 1(2) | Requires professional operators to make available information concerning prohibitions and requirements for the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory to their clients. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 of 14 August 2020 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.) Articles 19 to 23 and 25 to 30 | Requires operators to move specified plants under specific conditions, identifies plants subject to derogation and outlines the use of plant passports, and the movement of host plants from PFAs in infected countries. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1213 of 21 August 2020 concerning the phytosanitary measures for the introduction into the Union of certain plants, plant products and other objects which have been removed from the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 Article 2 and the Annex | Requires operators to comply with specified phytosanitary measures for the introduction from third countries into the Union of certain plants, plant products and other objects. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1192 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Globodera pallida (Stone) Behrens and Globodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber) Behrens Article 10(1) | Requires professional operators to notify Competent Authorities of symptoms of the specified pest on a resistant potato variety. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1193 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith 1896) Yabuuchi et al. 1996 emend. Safni et al. 2014 Article 6 and Annex 5 | Prohibits operators from planting specified plants designated as infected or probably infected by specified pests, and where specified plants have been planted before designated as infected or probably infected, requires destruction of the planted material. Any machinery, vehicle, vessel, store, or units thereof, and any other objects including packaging material, designated as infected or probably infected, must be destroyed or cleaned and disinfected. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1194 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann & Kotthoff 1914) Nouioui et al. 2018 Article 6 and Annex 5 | Prohibits operators from planting specified plants designated as infected or probably infected by specified pests, and where specified plants have been planted before designated as infected or probably infected, requires destruction of the planted material. Any machinery, vehicle, vessel, store, or units thereof, and any other objects including packaging material, designated as infected or probably infected, must be destroyed or cleaned and disinfected. Article 8(1) | Requires operators to ensure tubers of specified plants, other than those for planting, originating in a highly infected area, only move out of that area to other areas of the Union territory if they have a plant passport and originate in a place of production registered and supervised by Competent Authorities and officially recognized to be free from the pest. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1195 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilbersky) Percival Article 8(1) | Requires professional operators to notify Competent Authorities of symptoms of the specified pest on a resistant potato variety. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1941 of 13 October 2022 on the prohibition of introduction, movement, holding, multiplication or release of certain pests pursuant to Article 30(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 1 and the Annex | Prohibits the introduction into, or movement within, or holding, multiplying or releasing of certain pests into the Union territory. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2091 of 28 September 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the requirements for the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of consignments of tubers of Solanum tuberosum L. for planting (seed potatoes), their use in Northern Ireland, and the model form of the plant health label for seed potatoes Article 2(a) to (e) and (g), Article 3 and the Annex | Requires professional operators to comply with certain conditions for the entry of seed potatoes to Northern Ireland. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/311 of 14 February 2025 on measures to eradicate and to prevent the establishment and spread within the Union territory of fruit flies of the species Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) Article 10 | Requires professional operators to comply with certain conditions to prevent the spread of the specified pest . (17) In Schedule 4— (a) in the shoulder note to the Schedule heading, for “Regulation 41(1)(g)” substitute “Regulation 40(1)(g)”; (b) omit the following entries— (i) “Commission Decision 98/109/EC”; (ii) “Commission Decision 2002/757/EC”; (iii) “Commission Decision 2004/200/EC”; (iv) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/138/EU”; (v) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/697/EU”; (vi) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789”; (vii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715”; (viii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/638”; (ix) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1739”; (x) “Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/885”; (xi) “Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191”.
7 Amendment of the Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020
(1) The Plant Health (Official Controls and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 are amended as follows. (2) In regulation 2 after paragraph (1) insert— (1A) Inthese Regulations— (a) any reference to a member State is to be read as if Northern Ireland were a member State of the European Union; (b) any reference to the Union or Union territory is to be read so as to include Northern Ireland. ; (3) In regulation 3(1), omit the following definitions— (i) “Commission Decision 98/109/EC”; (ii) “Commission Decision 2002/757/EC”; (iii) “Commission Decision 2004/200/EC”; (iv) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/138/EU”; (v) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/697/EU”; (vi) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789”; (vii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715”; (viii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/638”; (ix) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1739”; (x) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/885”; (xi) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1191”. (4) In regulation 4, at the end of paragraph (d) for the full stop substitute a semicolon and insert— (e) Chloridea virescens Fabricius; (f) Homonamagnanima Dyakonov; (g) Resseliellacitrifrugis Jiang; (h) Spodopteraornithogalli Guenée. . (5) In regulation 10(1)(c), omit “in Northern Ireland or” and “other”. (6) In regulation 11(1)(c), omit “in Northern Ireland or” and “other”. (7) Omit regulation 13. (8) In regulation 16(4), omit “(including representatives of the European Commission)”. (9) In regulation 24(1)(a), for “in another member State” substitute “in a member State outside Northern Ireland”. (10) In regulation 26(2)(a) and (c), for “another member State” substitute “a member State outside Northern Ireland”. (11) In regulation 28— (a) for paragraph (6)(a) substitute— (a) be accompanied by such other persons as the inspector considers necessary; ; (b) in paragraph (7), for “(6)(a)(i)” substitute “(6)(a)”; (c) in paragraph (8), for “(6)(a)(ii)” substitute “(6)(a)”. (12) In regulation 31— (a) for paragraph (4)(a) substitute— (a) be accompanied by such other persons as the inspector considers necessary; ; (b) in paragraph (5), for “(4)(a)(ii)” substitute “(4)(a)”. (13) In regulation 36(3), omit sub-paragraph (a). (14) In regulation 40— (a) for paragraph (1)(c) substitute— (c) paragraphs 2(1), (2), (3) or (4), 5(1) or (2), 11(1), 12(1), 13(1), 14, 19(1), 20(7), 21(2), 26(1), 27(7), 28(2) or 30(2) of Schedule 2; ; (b) in paragraph (1)(f), after “specified in” insert “Part 2A or”. (15) In Schedule 1— (a) in paragraph 4(3), for “Table 2” substitute “Table 1”; (b) immediately before paragraph 6— (i) in the Part 2 part heading omit “another part of”; (ii) in the paragraph heading omit “another part of”; (c) in paragraph 7, in Table 2, in row 3, in column 2, omit “, other than the United Kingdom”; (d) in paragraph 17— (i) in sub-paragraph (1), omit paragraphs (a) and (b); (ii) omit sub-paragraph (2). (16) In Schedule 3, after Part 2 insert— PART2A Commission Implementing Regulations etc. In the following table any reference to an EU instrument is to be construed as a reference to that EU instrument as amended from time to time. Provision of EU legislation | Subject matter (1) O.J. No. L 323, 19.12.2018, pp. 10-15, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/152 (O.J. No. L 2026/152, 23.1.2026). (2) O.J. No. L 321, 12.12.2019, pp. 99-103. (3) O.J. No. L 37, 10.2.2020, pp. 1–3, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/680 (O.J. No. L 125, 28.4.2022, pp. 1-3). (4) O.J. No. L 269, 17.8.2020, pp. 2–39, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2231 (O.J. No. L 2025/2231, 4.11.2025). (5) O.J. No. L 275, 24.8.2020, pp. 5–10, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1949 (O.J. No. L 2025/1949, 30.9.2025). (6) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 12–26, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2060 (O.J. No. L 2024/2060, 31.7.2024). (7) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 27–46, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2632 (O.J. No. L 2024/2632, 9.10.2024). (8) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 47–64, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2636 (O.J. No. L 2024/2636, 9.10.24). (9) O.J. No. L 185, 12.7.2022, pp. 65–76, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2382 (O.J. No. L 2024/2382, 10.9.2024). (10) O.J. No. L 268, 14.10.2022, pp. 13–15, as last amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/356 (O.J. No. L 2025/356, 24.2.2025). (11) O.J. No. L 241, 29.9.2023, pp. 111–115. (12) O.J. No. L 2025/311, 17.2.2025. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 of 18 December 2018 establishing a provisional list of high risk plants, plant products or other objects, within the meaning of Article 42 of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 and a list of plants for which phytosanitary certificates are not required for introduction into the Union, within the meaning of Article 73 of that Regulation Article 1 and the Annex | Prohibits the introduction of certain plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2125 of 10 October 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules concerning the performance of specific official controls of wood packaging material, notification of certain consignments and measures to be taken in cases of non-compliance Article 5(2) | Requires the operator to provide CHED details with any customs declaration. Article 6(1) | Requires the operator to destroy non-compliant wood packaging material when instructed by the Competent Authority. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/178 of 31 January 2020 on the presentation of information to passengers arriving from third countries and to clients of postal services and of certain professional operators concerning the prohibitions as regards the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 1(2) | Requires professional operators to make available information concerning prohibitions and requirements for the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory to their clients. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1201 of 14 August 2020 as regards measures to prevent the introduction into and the spread within the Union of Xylella fastidiosa (Wells et al.) Articles 19 to 23 and 25 to 30 | Requires operators to move specified plants under specific conditions, identifies plants subject to derogation and outlines the use of plant passports, and the movement of host plants from PFAs in infected countries. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1213 of 21 August 2020 concerning the phytosanitary measures for the introduction into the Union of certain plants, plant products and other objects which have been removed from the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 Article 2 and the Annex | Requires operators to comply with specified phytosanitary measures for the introduction from third countries into the Union of certain plants, plant products and other objects. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1192 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Globodera pallida (Stone) Behrens and Globodera rostochiensis (Wollenweber) Behrens Article 10(1) | Requires professional operators to notify Competent Authorities of symptoms of the specified pest on a resistant potato variety. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1193 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith 1896) Yabuuchi et al. 1996 emend. Safni et al. 2014 Article 6 and Annex 5 | Prohibits operators from planting specified plants designated as infected or probably infected by specified pests, and where specified plants have been planted before designated as infected or probably infected, requires destruction of the planted material. Any machinery, vehicle, vessel, store, or units thereof, and any other objects including packaging material, designated as infected or probably infected, must be destroyed or cleaned and disinfected. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1194 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann & Kotthoff 1914) Nouioui et al. 2018 Article 6 and Annex 5 | Prohibits operators from planting specified plants designated as infected or probably infected by specified pests, and where specified plants have been planted before designated as infected or probably infected, requires destruction of the planted material. Any machinery, vehicle, vessel, store, or units thereof, and any other objects including packaging material, designated as infected or probably infected, must be destroyed or cleaned and disinfected. Article 8(1) | Requires operators to ensure tubers of specified plants, other than those for planting, originating in a highly infected area, only move out of that area to other areas of the Union territory if they have a plant passport and originate in a place of production registered and supervised by Competent Authorities and officially recognized to be free from the pest. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1195 of 11 July 2022 establishing measures to eradicate and prevent the spread of Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilbersky) Percival Article 8(1) | Requires professional operators to notify Competent Authorities of symptoms of the specified pest on a resistant potato variety. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1941 of 13 October 2022 on the prohibition of introduction, movement, holding, multiplication or release of certain pests pursuant to Article 30(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council Article 1 and the Annex | Prohibits the introduction into, or movement within, or holding, multiplying or releasing of certain pests into the Union territory. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2091 of 28 September 2023 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the requirements for the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of consignments of tubers of Solanum tuberosum L. for planting (seed potatoes), their use in Northern Ireland, and the model form of the plant health label for seed potatoes Article 2(a) to (e) and (g), Article 3 and the Annex | Requires professional operators to comply with certain conditions for the entry of seed potatoes to Northern Ireland. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/311 of 14 February 2025 on measures to eradicate and to prevent the establishment and spread within the Union territory of fruit flies of the species Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), Bactrocera latifrons (Hendel) and Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) Article 10 | Requires professional operators to comply with certain conditions to prevent the spread of the specified pest . (17) In Schedule 4— (a) in the shoulder note to the Schedule heading, for “Regulation 41(1)(g)” substitute “Regulation 40(1)(g)”; (b) omit the following entries— (i) “Commission Decision 98/109/EC”; (ii) “Commission Decision 2002/757/EC”; (iii) “Commission Decision 2004/200/EC”; (iv) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/138/EU”; (v) “Commission Implementing Decision 2012/697/EU”; (vi) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/789”; (vii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/715”; (viii) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/638”; (ix) “Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1739”; (x) “Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/885”; (xi) “Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1191”.
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