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Check if your import, export or re-export needs a permit or certificate under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Designated land, sea and air ports for trading or moving CITES-listed endangered animals, plants, or their parts and derivatives.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Get a licence to possess and transport dead specimens of certain plants and animals for scientific or educational purposes.
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.
How to apply to import, export or re-export endangered animal and plant species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
What to do if you’re bringing plants and products like wood and timber into Great Britain, including what certificates you'll need.
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).
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
Apply for a certificate to use a CITES-listed specimen for commercial purposes.
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export plants and plant products.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
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.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
Find information and support on how to comply with the biosecure procurement requirement for suppliers of plants and trees.
How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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