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Public and construction trade vigilance needed as greatest risk period for oak processionary moth (OPM) begins.
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.
How to stop the spread and dispose of invasive non-native plants that can harm the environment in England.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Find out how to import species of bonsai to Great Britain from Japan and Korea, who you can import from, and what the quarantine rules are.
What you need to do if you keep, grow, find or sell certain invasive plant species and your responsibilities to prevent their spread.
Check if you need a licence or phytosanitary certificate to export plants and plant products.
Information about the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, including how to report sightings.
How to assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
What to do if you’re bringing plants and products like wood and timber into Great Britain, including what certificates you'll need.
Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.
Plant health controls, imports and exports, certification schemes, plant passporting and listed quarantine plant pests.
Find out which plants are banned from sale, which need a licence and how to get a licence.
How commercial plant growers can grow FPCS-certified stock, and find out the benefits of using it in commercial plantations.
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.
Register so you can import or export regulated timber, wood products and bark, apply for export phytosanitary certificates, issue plant passports or apply ISPM15 marking.
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 from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
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