Applying to set up a border control post at your port or airport
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How to set up a border control post to receive animals, animal products, plants, plant products, wood and high risk foods not of animal origin.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How to set up a border control post to receive animals, animal products, plants, plant products, wood and high risk foods not of animal origin. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Check BCP requirements
- Applying to become a BCP
- After you submit your application
- Get your building plan approved for a new BCP
- During the build
- When your BCP is designated
- How long designation takes
- Contacts
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Applying to set up a border control post at your port or airport’ (updated 17 August 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026