Plants and Seeds: Imports

(asked on 1st March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask His Majesty's Government what administrative requirements a business in Great Britain sending seeds or plants to an individual in Northern Ireland will need to comply with under the Windsor Framework.


Answered by
Lord Benyon Portrait
Lord Benyon
Lord Chamberlain (HM Household)
This question was answered on 10th March 2023

Instead of full EU certification, all plants and seeds will move under a similar mechanism to the UK-wide plant passport scheme, in line with traders throughout the UK.

That means rather than paying £150 per movement into Northern Ireland, growers and businesses serving NI consumers can pay £120 a year to be part of the UK scheme, as they did before the Protocol came into force.

Scheme membership allows traders to print official labels for plants moving within GB, and under this new scheme, to NI.

These seeds and plants will be delivered to a registered business to be able to be sold onto NI consumers.

This process will be virtually the same as what is needed for plants moving from Cardiff to Birmingham now.

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