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The competent authority shall grant an authorisation to a professional operator to issue plant passports (‘the authorisation to issue plant passports’) for particular families, genera or species, and commodity types of plants, plant products and other objects where that professional operator complies with both of the following conditions: it possesses the necessary knowledge to carry out the examinations referred to in Article 87 concerning the Union quarantine pests or pests subject to measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1), protected zone quarantine pests and Union regulated non-quarantine pests that could affect the plants, plant products and other objects concerned, and concerning the signs of the presence of those pests, the symptoms caused by them, and the means to prevent the presence and spread of those pests; it has in place systems and procedures enabling it to fulfil its obligations concerning traceability pursuant to Articles 69 and 70.

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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.