Guidance and regulation

Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 31 January 2024

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales)…

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 26 March 2024

• Import risk categories for animal and animal product imports from the EU to Great Britain: summary tables

  These tables give a summary of how different types of animals and animal…

How to import or move food and drink from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 18 March 2024

Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 20 September 2022

Use this service to apply for certificates and inspections if you export plants from England and Wales.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 20 October 2022

Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 September 2022

Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin in your consignment.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 15 April 2024

The documents you need and the border checks your import must pass to import from non-EU countries.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 2 others
• Updated: 17 January 2024

McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 19 March 2021

Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 5 April 2024

Find out what a composite product is, and how to import or move composite products from the EU and Northern Ireland to Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 2 February 2024

Register of nutrition and health claims that may be made in commercial communications in Great Britain.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 8 April 2024

Guidance for exporters in EU and non-EU countries on how to complete health certificates to export animals and animal products to Great Britain.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 28 February 2024

Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 7 December 2022

Establishments approved to export animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and how competent authorities can change the establishment list.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 1 July 2022

Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 31 January 2024

How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports, when you need to be authorised and plants that need passports.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 4 April 2024

A list of organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that inspect and certify animals and animal products for export. The list does not include every certifier.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 5 April 2024

Rules on labelling food, feed and seed as organic or using organic production terms if you produce, prepare, store, import, export or sell organic food in the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 21 April 2023

Requirements for importers, retailers and wholesalers selling and labelling wine in Great Britain, including labelling laws for wine imports into England from 1 January 2024.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 19 December 2023