Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

This guide offers details about plant passporting - moving plants within the European Community - and marketing regulations.


Appendix A/1: plants and plant products which must be accompanied by a plant passport at all stages down to the final retailer - plant passporting arrangements with Switzerland

Latin Name (all species of the genera except where indicated)

Common name

Type of material

Amelanchier

Amelanchier

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Beta vulgaris

Beet

Plants for planting
(not including seeds)

Camellia

Camellia

Plants for planting

Castanea

Chestnut

Plants for planting

Chaenomeles

Ornamental quince, Japonica

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Crataegus

Hawthorn

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Cydonia

Quince

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Eriobotrya

Includes loquat

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Humulus lupulus

Hop (including ornamentals)

Plants for planting
(not including seeds)

Malus

Apple (including ornamentals)

Plants for planting(not including fruit or seeds)*

Mespilus

Medlar

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Prunus (other than Prunus laurocerasus and Prunus lusitanica)

Includes almond, apricot, cherry, damson, greengage, nectarine, peach, plum, sloe and ornamental/flowering varieties

Plants for planting
(not including seeds)

Pyracantha

Firethorn

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Pyrus

Pear (including ornamentals)

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Rhododendron,(not including Rhododendron simsii (Azalea indica)

Rhododendron (other than pot azaleas)

Plants for planting,

Solanum and hybrids (stoloniferous and tuberous species)

Potato

Plants for planting

Sorbus other than Sorbus intermedia

Includes rowan and whitebeam

Plants for planting
(not including fruit or seeds)*

Viburnum

Viburnum

Plants for planting,

Vitis

Grape, includes grape vine and ornamental grape

Plants for planting
(not including fruit)

*Includes live pollen for pollination

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