Plant Health (Forestry) (Great Britain) Order 1993 (S.I. No. 1283 of 1993).

This Order implements the following Community legislation on: protective measures against the introduction into the Member States of the European Community of organisms harmful to plants or plant products and against their spread within the Community; protected zones exposed to particular health risks in the Community; obligations to which producers and importers of plants, plant products or other objects are subject and establishing details for their registration; and standardization for plant passports to be used for the movement of certain plants, plant products or other objects within the Community, and establishing the detailed procedures related to the issuing of such plant passports and the conditions and detailed procedures for their replacement. The Order, inter alia: (a) prohibits the landing of specified tree pests and relevant material and lays down the conditions under which the landing of other relevant material may be permitted (art. 3), (b) prohibits the introduction into protected zones of specified tree pests and relevant material and lays down the conditions under which the introduction of other relevant material may be permitted (art. 4); (c) prohibits the keeping, storage, sale, planting, movement or other disposal of specified tree pests and relevant material within Great Britain (art. 5); (d) prohibits the keeping, storage, sale, planting, movement or other disposal of specified relevant material in protected zones (art. 6); and (e) lays down the conditions under which specified relevant material may be consigned to another Member State or to a protected zone outside Great Britain (art. 7).