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D8: burning waste at a port under a Plant Health Notice

UK Environment Agency Authoritative source Published 21st October 2026 UK

What the source reported

Source-reported

D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.

Publication
UK Environment Agency · Government/Regulator
Published
21st October 2026
Original report
gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Regulation & Trade
Geography
UK
Organisations
None identified
Collected
21st October 2026 · 09:09

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low
Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (11.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor
Procurement Impact
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth