Plant Health Guide: passporting and marketing requirements

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


Appendix D: protected zones and plants which require "ZP" plant passports

Plants, etc. which can be carriers of pests relevant to certain protected zones

These additional requirements apply to movements of specified plants into and within protected zones. Please check other Appendices for details of ordinary plant passports that may be needed for other movements.

Everyone has a responsibility to ensure that the named organisms are not moved into the protected zones irrespective of whether passports are required. All entries are for plants for planting (excluding fruit and seeds) unless otherwise specified.

Remember: there may be different plant passporting requirements for other member states. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, for example, require a plant passport for retail sales of fireblight hosts even down to the final consumer. Please contact the SERPID Horticulture and Marketing Unit for further details.

HOST

PEST/DISEASE

PROTECTED ZONE

EC DIRECTIVE CODE

1. Abies, Larix, Picea, Pinus, Pseudotsuga

Gremmeniella abietina
(canker)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus: Ireland

c.2

4 .Abies, Larix, Picea, Pinus, and Pseudotsuga over 3m in height, other than fruit and seeds

Dendroctonus micans
(Great spruce bark beetle)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Jersey) plus: Ireland and Greece

c.4

4 .Abies, Larix, Picea, and Pinus, over 3m in height, other than fruit and seeds

Ips duplicatus (Northern bark beetle)

United Kingdom plus: Ireland and Greece

c.10

4 .Abies, Larix, Picea, Pinus, and Pseudotsuga over 3m in height, other than fruit and seeds

Ips typographus (Eight-toothed spruce bark beetle)

United Kingdom plus: Ireland

c.12

4. Abies, Larix, Picea, and Pinus, over 3m in height, other than fruit and seeds

Ips amitinus (Small spruce bark beetle)

United Kingdom plus: Greece and France (Corsica)

c.8

4 .Abies, Larix, Picea, Pinus, and Pseudotsuga over 3m in height, other than fruit and seeds

Ips cembrae (Large larch bark beetle)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man) plus: Ireland and Greece

c.9

4.Abies, Larix, Picea, and Pinus, over 3m in height, other than fruit and seeds

Ips sexdentatus (six-toothed bark beetle)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man) plus: Ireland and Cyprus,

c.11

2.Any host, plant or plant material (3other than Begonia Ficus, Hibiscus or Euphorbia pulcherrima)

Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly)

United Kingdom plus: Ireland, Portugal (Entre Douro e Minho, Trás-os-Montes, Beira Litoral, Beira Interior, Ribatejo e Oeste, Alentejo, Madeira and Azores), Sweden, Finland

a.2

2.Any host, plant or plant material

Leptinotarsa decemlineata
(Colorado beetle)

United Kingdom plus: Cyprus, Malta, Spain (Menorca and Ibiza), Ireland, Portugal (Azores and Madeira), Sweden (counties of Blekinge, Gotland, Halland, Kalmar, Skäne), Finland (the districts of Aland, Häme, Kymi, Pirkanmaa, Satakunta, Turku, Uusimaa)

a.13

2.Any host, plant or plant material

Liriomyza bryoniae (tomato leafminer)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus: Ireland

a.14

Allium porrum, Apium, Beta, Brassica,(plants of ), Daucus (other than plants intended for planting)

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (beet rhizomania)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus, France (Brittany), Finland, Ireland, Portugal (Azores), Lithuania,)

d.1

Apium graveolens, Capsicum annum, Cucumis melo, Dendranthema, New Guinea hybrids, Impatiens, Lactuca sativa, Lycopersicon lycopersicum (plants for planting) Nicotiana tabacum,(intended for sale to professional tobacco producers), Solanum melongena, Solanum tuberosum (intended for planting)

Tomato spotted wilt virus

Sweden, Finland

d.2

3 .Begonia,Ficus, Hibiscus, Euphorbia pulcherrima (poinsettia) ,

Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly)

United Kingdom plus: Ireland, Portugal (Entre Douro e Minho, Trás-os-Montes, Beira Litoral, Beira Interior, Ribatejo e Oeste, Alentejo, Madeira and Azores), Sweden, Finland

a.2

3 .Begonia,Ficus, Hibiscus, Euphorbia pulcherrima (poinsettia) ,

Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly)

United Kingdom plus: Ireland, Portugal (Entre Douro e Minho, Trás-os-Montes, Beira Litoral, Beira Interior, Ribatejo e Oeste, Alentejo, Madeira and Azores), Sweden, Finland

a.2

Beta vulgaris (Beet) plants intended for planting, industrial processing and seeds

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (beet rhizomania)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus: France (Brittany), Finland, Ireland, Portugal (Azores),Lithuania

d.1

Beta vulgaris (Beet), sugar and fodder beet seed and vegetable seed

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (beet rhizomania)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus France (Brittany), Finland, Ireland, Portugal (Azores), Lithuania

d.1

Citrus, Fortunella, Poncirus and their hybrids, fruit with leaves and stalks

Citrus tristeza virus (European isolates)

Greece, France (Corsica), Malta, Portugal

d.3

Eucalyptus

Gonipterus scutellatus (Eucalyptus snout beetle)

Greece, Portugal (Azores)

a.7

Gossypium (cotton) seeds and fruits (bolls)

Glomerella gossypii (pink boll rot)

Greece

c.1

Gossypium (cotton) seeds and fruits (bolls) and unginned cotton

Anthonomus grandis (boll weevil)

Greece, Spain (Andalucia, Catalonia, Extremadura, Murica, Valencia)

a.1

1 .Larix

Cephaicia laricphila (larch sawfly)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey) plus: Ireland

a.3

Mango seedsoriginating outside the EC

Sternochetus mangiferae (mango weevil)

Spain (Granada and Malaga), Portugal (Alentejo, Algrave and Madeira)

a.15

Phaseolus vulgaris (seeds) Dolichos (seeds)

Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens pv flaccumfaciens (bacterial wilt)

Greece, Spain, Portugal

b.1

1 Picea

Gilpinia hercyniae (Spruce sawfly)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey)plus: Greece, Ireland

a.5

1 Pinus

Thaumetopoea pityocampa (pine processionary)

Spain (Ibiza)

a.16

1 Populus

Hypoxylon mammatum (poplar canker)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland,) plus:, Ireland

c.3

Soil from beet and unsterilised waste from beet (Beta vulgaris)

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (beet rhizomania))

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus: France (Brittany), Finland, Ireland, Portugal (Azores), Lithuania

d.1

Solanum tuberosum tubersintended for planting (seed potatoes)

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (beet rhizomania)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus: France (Brittany)

Finland, Ireland, Portugal (Azores), Lithuania

d.1

Amelanchier, Chaenomeles, Cotoneaster, Crataegus, Cydonia, Eriobotrya, Malus, Mespilus, Photina davidiana, Pyracantha, Pyrus and Sorbus - plants, and parts of plants (other than fruit and seeds) and live pollen for pollination

Erwinia amylovora (fireblight)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands) plus: Spain, Estonia, France (Corsica), Ireland, Italy (Abruzzi; Apulia; Basilicata; Calabria; Campania; Emilia-Romagna: provinces of Forlí-Cesena, Parma, Piacenza and Rimini; Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Lazio; Liguria; Lombardy; Marche; Molise; Piedmont; Sardinia; Sicily; Tuscany; Trentino-Alto Adige: autonomous province of Trento; Umbria; Valle d'Aosta; Veneto: except, in the province of Rovigo, the communes Rovigo, Polesella, Villamarzana, Fratta Polesine, San Bellino, Badia Polesine, Trecenta, Ceneselli, Pontecchio Polesine, Arquà Polesine, Costa di Rovigo, Occhiobello, Lendinara, Canda, Ficarolo, Guarda Veneta, Frassinelle Polesine, Villanova del Ghebbo, Fiesso Umbertiano, Castelguglielmo, Bagnolo di Po, Giacciano con Baruchella, Bosaro, Canaro, Lusia, Pincara, Stienta, Gaiba, Salara, and in the province of Padova, the communes Castelbaldo, Barbona, Piacenza d'Adige, Vescovana, S. Urbano, Boara Pisani, Masi, and in the province of Verona, the communes of Palù, Roverchiara, Legnago, Castagnaro, Ronco all'Adige, Villa Bartolomea, Oppeano, Terrazzo, Isola Rizza, Angiari), Austria (Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Tirol (administrative district Lienz), Styria, Vienna), Portugal, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia

b.2

Solanum tuberosum tubers intended for planting (seed potatoes).

Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis (potato cyst nematode)

Finland, Latvia, Slovenia and Slovakia

a.6

Used agricultural machinery

Beet necrotic yellow vein virus (beet rhizomania)

United Kingdom (Northern Ireland) plus: France (Brittany), Finland, Ireland, Portugal (Azores), Lithuania

d.1

Vitis fruits and plants

Daktulosphaiva vitifoliae

Cyprus

a.3.1

Notes

1. Those trees listed here refer to trees intended for planting (including rooted potted trees) whatever their height. The requirements do not apply to cut trees or foliage.
2. A plant passport is not required but the introduction and spread of the pest is prohibited.
3. Plant passports are not required where the plants have been prepared and are ready for sale to the final consumer.
4. These protected zones apply solely to plants and plant material (including cut trees) over 3 metres in height. Please contact the Forestry Commission for further information.

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