Defra

Department for Environnment, Food and Rural Affairs

Plant Health Act 1967

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and Verticillium dahliae Klebahn) - previously known as progressive wilt disease of hops - should be treated as withdrawn.

Defra will confirm in writing that any individual notice has been withdrawn, on request to Plant Health Division, Room 342, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PX.