Guidance and regulation

Use IPAFFS to notify enforcement authorities about imports to Great Britain.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland to Great Britain…

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 16 May 2024

• Import risk categories and inspection rates for animal and animal product imports from the EU to Great Britain: summary tables

  The summary tables on this page show the Border Target Operating Model…

Find an approved UK border control post (BCP) to check the animals, animal products or high-risk food and feed of non-animal origin (HRFNAO) in your consignment.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 15 May 2024

• Live animals, animal products and food and feed of non-animal origin border control posts at ports in the UK

  You can find out about the checks your consignment must pass at a border…

• Live animals, animal products and food and feed of non-animal origin border control posts at airports in the UK

  You can find out about the checks your consignment must pass at a border…

Use this service to apply for certificates and inspections if you export plants from England and Wales.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 20 October 2022

How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 20 September 2022

Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 May 2024

How to import animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man from non-EU countries.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 2 others
• Updated: 30 April 2024

Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 September 2022

Labelling rules for businesses in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) and retailers in Northern Ireland, for certain agri-food products moved under the Northern Ireland Retail Movement Scheme.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 5 April 2024

Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 8 May 2024

Find out what a composite product is, and how to import or move composite products from the EU to Great Britain.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 30 April 2024

McCance and Widdowson’s 'composition of foods integrated dataset' on the nutrient content of the UK food supply.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 19 March 2021

Register of nutrition and health claims that may be made in commercial communications in Great Britain.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 8 April 2024

A list of organisations in England, Scotland and Wales that inspect and certify animals and animal products for export. The list does not include every certifier.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 10 May 2024

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.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 4 April 2024

How to market eggs, including rules on registration, egg marking, salmonella control and egg marketing inspections in England and Wales.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 December 2023

Supporting documents containing information about the use and labelling of food supplements in England.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Updated: 2 November 2021

Details of control bodies approved to certify organic food in the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 14 July 2023

Guidance for exporters in EU and non-EU countries on how to complete health certificates to export animals and animal products to Great Britain.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 28 February 2024