The Plant Health (England) Order 2005 (as amended)

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) hereby announces that all notices served prior to the date of this announcement under the above Order or any earlier Order made under the Plant Health Act 1967 imposing specified restrictions regarding the growing of hops in England because of the presence of verticillium wilt disease of hops (Verticillium albo-atrum Reinke and Berthold and Verticillium dahliae Klebahn) – previously known as progressive wilt disease of hops – should be treated as withdrawn.

Defra will confirm in writing that any individual notice has been withdrawn, on request to Plant Health Division, Room 342, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PX.

Taken from: www.defra.gov.uk

I wanted to draw your attention to the article below, concerning the withdrawal of statutory notices imposed following findings of hop wilt.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/newsitems/hopwilt.htm

While hop wilt remains subject to statutory control, requirements are now restricted to material being moved, rather than the land on which plants are grown. Therefore, we are revoking all notices which impose restrictions on hop growing land because of hop wilt. This will reduce administrative burdens on growers and ensure that they are not subject to obsolete requirements.

We have issued a blanket revocation, which means that restrictions are automatically lifted without the need for any further action or paperwork. However, if growers wish to receive written confirmation that an individual notice has been lifted, a contact address is provided.