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ByDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairsslate_grove_c38339

How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).

Adapted edition

Agricultural biosecurity
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
7
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-16
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

How to import plants, fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, trees, seeds and used agricultural machinery from non-EU countries to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • Find your risk category
  • High risk and medium risk A and B goods: plant health controls
  • Register to import
  • Get a phytosanitary certificate
  • Notify the relevant authorities about your import
  • Get your goods inspected when they enter Great Britain
  • Fees for plant health checks
  • UK plant passport
  • What happens if your consignment fails plant health checks
  • Submit documents after your consignment arrives
  • Importing from non-EU countries to Great Britain through the EU
  • Importing prohibited goods
  • Importing goods with wood packaging material
  • Importing endangered and artificially propagated plants
  • Complaints and appeals
Source and licence
Import plants and plant products from non-EU countries to Great Britain

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Import plants and plant products from non-EU countries to Great Britain’ (updated 27 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
  • v1.016/09/2026
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