[eu]cite

Home› Food & Health Safety› Plant Health Regulation

Chapter VI · Certification of plants, plant products and other objects  ›  Section 1 · Phytosanitary certificates required for the introduction of plants, plant products and other objects into the Union territory › Article 75

Exceptions for travellers' luggage

1.   Small quantities of particular plants, other than plants for planting, and of plant products and other objects from a third country may be exempted from the requirement for a phytosanitary certificate set out in accordance with Article 72(1), Article 73 or Article 74(1), if they comply with all of the following conditions:

(a)

they are introduced into the Union territory as part of travellers' personal luggage;

(b)

they are not to be used for professional or commercial purposes;

(c)

they are listed in an implementing act provided for in paragraph 2 of this Article.

2.   The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, list the plants, plant products and other objects referred to in paragraph 1 and the third countries concerned, and set out the maximum quantity, as appropriate, of the plants, plant products and other objects concerned that are to be subject to the exemption of that paragraph and, where appropriate, one or more of the risk management measures set out in Section 1 of Annex II.

That listing and the setting out of the maximum quantity concerned and, where appropriate, the risk management measures shall be decided on the basis of the pest risk posed by small quantities of those plants, plant products and other objects, in accordance with the criteria set out in Section 2 of Annex II.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 107(2).

←→ also move between articles