Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

Who needs to be authorised? (see flowchart)

You will need to be authorised if you are:

• a grower of plants which require plant passports, listed at Appendices A-D

• a commercial producer of the plants and plant products, listed at Appendix A of this booklet, regardless of whether your plants are intended for further growing on or for sale or movement to retail outlets

• a commercial producer of the plants and plant products, listed at Appendix B, if they are to be sold or moved to commercial growers to be grown on

• a commercial producer of the bulbs and corms, listed at Appendix C, if they are to be sold or moved to commercial growers to be grown on

• an importer of plants or plant products from non- EC countries which need a phytosanitary certificate to enter the EC, regardless of whether they subsequently need a plant passport for trade within the EC

• a commercial producer and/or importer of plants and plant products destined for EC "Protected Zones" requiring special "ZP" plant passports (see the section on 'Plant Passports and Protected Zones)

• a trader in plants which already have passports and require a passport when they are split up or mixed with other consignments in readiness for sale or movement to other growers or retailers. This would include some dispatching centres and collective warehouses

In addition, you will need to be authorised if you are:

• a commercial trader or importer of any type of ornamental plant propagating material (including seeds)

• a commercial producer or propagator of the specific fruit and vegetable plants (and fruit seeds) listed in Appendices E and F