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Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
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.
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.
The Tribunal makes decisions about national listing of new varieties of plants, UK plant variety rights and certain forestry matters. PVST is a tribunal of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs .
Find out how to kill trees on site using chemical treatments to prevent the spread of pests and diseases.
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 get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
Get help to classify edible vegetables, roots, tubers, herbs, spices, fruit, nuts and peel for import and export.
Guidance on how to import and export plants and plant products to and from the UK.
Form to apply for the examination and certification of plant products for export.
Guidance, application forms and protocols for plant breeders' rights, national listing, seed certification and farmed saved seed.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
Find out how you could do the SFI actions for hedgerows.
This guide gives an overview of plant health legislation for forestry in England for Forestry Commission staff and contract inspectors working in the sector.
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export plants and plant products.
What to do if you’re bringing plants and products like wood and timber into Great Britain, including what certificates you'll need.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
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