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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 get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.
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).
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
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 register to use the Procedure for Electronic Application for Certificates (PEACH) system to comply with regulations when importing plants or fresh produce.
If you import plant and plant products you must register the place of destination.
How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) from the EU.
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 apply VAT zero rating for the supply of those plants and seeds that are used to grow food for human consumption.
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