Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

Replacement plant passports

When a trader splits or mixes plants for sale or movement where the plants have already been passported, a plant passport is required for onward movement of the plant. In these circumstances, a replacement passport bearing the marking "RP" (replacement passport) must be issued. There are two options for replacement passports:

• the registration number of the original producer must be shown along with your own. For example, EC Plant Passport UK/S 34567 WK1/ RP 12345 (WK 1 being the individual serial, week or batch number, 34567 being your own registration number and 12345 being that of the original producer)

• if you are concerned about identifying your supplier to your customer, you can choose your own code for the original producer and use this instead. In this case, you must have a different code for each producer. SE must be able to identify the original producer from the code and you must make this information available should SE need it. For example, if you give a producer the code AB1, the information would look like this:

EC Plant Passport UK/S 34567 WK1/ RP AB1

Replacement passports must only include ZP details if these were included by the original producer. Ordinary passports must not be upgraded to a ZP passport further down the trade chain.