Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

How to apply for authorisation

If you think you may need to be authorised, contact the SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit who will discuss the requirements with you, free of charge. See appendix J for contact details.

If you wish to issue plant passports, your premises and plants must be inspected before you can be authorised to issue plant passports. Once authorised by SERPID you can issue as many plant passports as you need. This authorisation will also allow you to issue supplier documents. A separate authorisation will only be necessary to issue supplier documents if you are not already authorised to issue plant passports.

Authorisation involves the provision of basic details about your business and its activities, which may be followed up by a visit from a SERPID Horticultural Officer. If this is necessary, you will be informed by the SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit.

Visits by SERPID Horticultural Officers will be necessary to maintain authorisations to issue plant passports. Such visits will also be used as an opportunity to check on authorisations to issue supplier documents; separate visits for such purposes will not routinely be carried out.

When you are authorised you will be given a unique SE registration number. Authorisation lasts for 12 months and therefore you must re-apply for authorisation each year.