Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

Charges for authorisation and plant passporting

There will be a charge for any inspections associated with authorising the issue of plant passports. The scale of fees is set out at Appendix L.

You will be charged for inspections associated with your authorisation to issue plant passports. You will not be charged for routine visits, spot checks, or visits associated with marketing requirements or statutory pest or disease eradication.

The SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit will carry out routine chargeable inspections, the number of which will depend on the plant health risk associated with the plants you grow and the size of your business. The SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit can advise on the number of chargeable visits and the cost.

There are no charges where:

• you applied for plant passport authorisation and SE decides you do not need to be authorised

• you are authorised to issue supplier documents only (i.e. you do not market plants or products covered by the plant passporting requirements)

Separate charges apply for inspections undertaken in connection with material which requires a phytosanitary certificate when imported from non-EC countries. For more information contact SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit.