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How to apply for a traditional herbal registration (THR) to market a herbal medicine in the UK.
How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
How traditional herbal medicines and homeopathic medicines will be treated by the MHRA.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Find out about the SFI actions for soils, what land is eligible for each action, and what you need to do to get paid.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU, Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
Find out how to import timber and wood material, including the documents, identity checks and plant health inspections required.
Information on herbal medicines, how to apply for a traditional herbal registration (THR), banned or restricted herbal ingredients, homeopathic medicines and fees.
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export plants and plant products.
Find out how to apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
How to report and record pig movements and when to follow the standstill rule.
What growers and traders need to do to move plants (including plants for planting, seeds, used agricultural and forestry machinery and vehicles and seed potatoes) using a Northern Ireland plant health label (NIPHL).
Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for integrated pest management.
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