Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Successors: Plant Health Division: European Community Plant Health Regime: Registered Files (PHE Series)

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Details of MAF 799
Reference: MAF 799
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Successors: Plant Health Division: European Community Plant Health Regime: Registered Files (PHE Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files concerning plant health legislation and consultation, and policy and review of policy relating to plant health and diseases including Phytopthera Ramorum.

Date: 1992-2012
Related material:

See also MAF 456

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PHE Prefix
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-

Food and Environment Research Agency, 2009-

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001

Physical description: 80 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2023 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Accumulation dates: 1980 to 2013
Selection and destruction information: 3.1.1 The principal policies and actions of the UK central government and English and Welsh Governments
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1984 a separate Plant Health Division was created to administer plant health policy and EC plant health regime. This Division merged with Marketing Policy and Potatoes Division to form the Horticulture and Potatoes Division in 1989. In 1990 Plant Health Division became part of Flood Defence, Plant Protection and Agricultural Resources Directorate. In 2001 Plant Health Division was based at York, responsibilities included import and export arrangements and plant pests. In 2009 Plant Health Division became part of the Food and Environment Research Agency and in 2015 on creation of Fera Science Ltd responsibility for the series transferred back to DEFRA.

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