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How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
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.
Information for farmers about inspections the Animal and Plant Health Agency carries out on crops and seeds for signs of disease.
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export plants and plant products.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
Find information and support on woodland creation in England, including funding to create woodland, legal requirements and best practice for sustainability.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
We are looking for novel proposals to create at least 100ha of new woodland to be planted by 31 March 2025.
Guidance, application forms and protocols for plant breeders' rights, national listing, seed certification and farmed saved seed.
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 .
Get authorisation to use Northern Ireland plant health labels (NIPHL) and see the list of regulated plants for planting.
How to identify, stop the spread and dispose of Japanese knotweed in England.
Find out how land managers can look after newly planted trees in areas where there’s been restocking due to pests and disease.
Form to apply to be a maintainer of a plant variety on the UK National List.
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).
Form to submit details of seeds for National List or plant breeders' rights.
Record details of imported plant material on the Procedure for Electronic Application for Certificates (PEACH) system.
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