Dutch Potatoes (Notification) (England) Order 2005 (S.I. No. 279 of 2005).

This Order places certain notification requirements upon persons importing potatoes from the Netherlands which have been grown during 2004 or later. Article 3 requires any person importing Dutch potatoes into England in the course of business to give at least two days' notice in writing to a Plant Health inspector of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, providing specified details as to, among other things, when and where the potatoes are to be introduced into England. It also requires persons who imported Dutch seed potatoes into England after 1 September 2004 but before the coming into force of this Order to provide to an inspector, so far as is reasonably practicable, specified information of a similar nature no later than 21 March 2005. Article 4 provides inspectors with powers, for the purpose of checking compliance with this Order or the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993, to require the movement of potatoes to any premises or to prohibit the movement, treatment or destruction of potatoes or any container or package. For the purposes of checking compliance with this Order, inspectors also have a power to enter premises in order to carry out examinations or inspections of certain items found there. These provisions are without prejudice to the circumstances in which an inspector may by virtue of the principal Order exercise the powers conferred by that Order.