
2024 No. 86
Plant Health
The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024
Made 19th March 2024
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 21st March 2024
Coming into force 18th May 2024
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3(1) and 4A of the Plant Health Act 1967 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Citation and commencement
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This Order may be cited as the Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024 and comes into force on 18 May 2024.
Amendment of the Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Order 2018
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(1) The Plant Health (Export Certification) (Scotland) Order 2018 is amended as follows.
(2) In article 4(1), 4(2)(a) and 4(4) (fees for export certification services), for “schedule”, substitute “schedule 1”.
(3) After article 4 (fees for export certification services) insert—“
Fees for services in connection with delegation of inspection functions
4A. 

(1) Where the Scottish Ministers delegate inspection functions related to the issue of a phytosanitary certificate under Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, the person to whom those functions are delegated must pay to the Scottish Ministers the fee prescribed in column 3 of the table in schedule 2 that corresponds to either a service described in column 2 of the table, which has been performed by an inspector in connection with the delegation of functions, or the issue of a phytosanitary certificate.
(2) Where paragraph (1) applies, no fees are charged where all goods transported pursuant to the delegation are moved exclusively to Northern Ireland.
(3) In this article, “Regulation (EU) 2017/625” means Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products.”.
(4) Renumber the schedule (applications for certificates: table of fees) as schedule 1.
(5) After schedule 1, insert schedule 2 as set out in the schedule of this Order.
LORNA SLATER
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th March 2024
SCHEDULE
Article 2(5)
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SCHEDULE 2
Services associated with the delegation of functions of the Scottish Ministers: table of fees
Article 4A


Column 1No. Column 2Service Column 3Fee
1 Initial site visit (training, assessment and authorisation) £328.00 per authorised site
2 Auditing/monitoring £191.00 per audit
3 Issue of certificate £25.00 per phytosanitary certificate”