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The competent authority shall only accept a phytosanitary certificate if it fulfils the following requirements: it is issued in at least one of the official languages of the Union; it is addressed to the national plant protection organisation of a Member State; and it has been issued no more than 14 days before the date on which the plants, plant products or other objects covered by it have left the third country in which it was issued.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.