Plant Health Guide: guidance for importers

APPENDIX B - ADDRESSES

1. Enquiries about plant health import requirements and restrictions in Scotland should be addressed to:

Tel: 0131 244 6303
Fax: 0131 244 6449
Email: hort.marketing@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Those concerning import of plant pests into Scotland should be addressed to:

Tel: 0131 244 8937
Fax: 0131 244 8940
Email: plant_health_licensing@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

2. Enquiries about plant health import requirements and restrictions in England and Wales should be addressed to local Fera PHSI (see http://www.fera.defra.gov.uk/contactUs/documents/phsiOfficesNew.pdf.):

Tel: 01904 465 625
Fax: 01904 465 628
Email: planthealth.info@fera.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.fera.defra.gov.uk

Enquiries about the import of invertebrate plant pests into England and Wales should also be addressed to this address.

3. For assistance with the PEACH system, contact the PEACH Helpdesk:

Tel: 0845 607 3224
Email: peachenquiries@defra.gsi.gov.uk

4. Enquiries about plant health import requirements and restrictions in Northern Ireland should be addressed to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at:

(For imports of potatoes)

Tel: 028 9052 4874
Fax: 028 9052 4671
Email: qab.admin@dardni.gsi.gov.uk

(For all other imports)

Tel: 028 9054 7106
Fax: 028 9054 7204
Email: qab.admin@dardni.gsi,gov.uk

5. Enquiries about the import into Great Britain of forest trees, wood, bark and invertebrate pests of forest trees under the Plant Health (Forestry) Order 2005 (as amended) should be addressed to:

Tel: 0131 314 6414
Fax: 0131 314 6148
Email: plant.health@forestry.gsi.gov.uk

6. Enquiries about the import of forest reproductive materials under the Forest Reproductive Materials (Great Britain) Regulations 2002 should be addressed to:

Tel: 0131 314 6175
Fax: 0131 316 4344

7. Enquiries about imports into Northern Ireland under the Plant Health (Wood and Bark) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006 should be addressed to DARDNI at:

Tel: 028 9076 5311
Fax: 028 9052 4380
Email: adrienne.dacosta@dardni.gsi.gov.uk

8. Copies of plant health legislation are available on the OPSI website at www.opsi.gov.uk or can be purchased at the following addresses:

Tel: 0870 606 5566
Fax: 0870 606 5588
Email: edinburgh.bookshop@tso.co.uk

Tel: 020 7242 6393
Fax: 020 7242 6394
Email: london.bookshop@tso.co.uk

Tel: 02890 238451
Fax: 02890 235401
Email: belfast.bookshop@tso.co.uk

9. Enquiries about EU marketing requirements for seeds in Scotland should be addressed to:

Tel (cereal seed): 0131 244 8856
Tel (non-cereal seed): 0131 244 8853
Fax: 0131 244 8940
Email (cereal seed): gerry.hall@sasa.gsi.gov.uk
Email (non-cereal seed): niall.green@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

10. Enquiries about EC Marketing Standards for fruit and vegetables in Scotland should be addressed to the HMU:

See contact details at the top of this section.

11. Enquiries about restrictions and prohibitions on imports of plant species which are considered endangered ( CITES legislation) should be addressed to Defra at:

Tel: 0117 372 8774
Fax: 0117 372 8206
Email: wildlife.licensing@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/index.htm.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalhealth/CITES/.

12. Enquiries about controls in Scotland under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 should be addressed to:

Tel: 0131 244 0728 (Conservation issues, plants taken from the wild)
Fax: 0131 244 1621 (Controls on the release of non-native species)

13. Enquiries about the Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) Regulations 2000 and Genetically Modified Organisms (Deliberate Release) Regulations 2002 should be addressed to:

14. Enquiries about Tariff Classification should be addressed to:

HMRC Tariff Classification helpline
Tel: 01702 366077

15. Enquiries about import duties, CAP levies and charges for goods imported from non- EU countries should be addressed to:

HMRC National Advice Service,
Tel: 0845 010 9000
Website: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htm

16. Enquiries about plant health inspections at Enhanced Remote Transit Shed ( ERTS) temporary storage premises should be addressed to:

Tel: 0121 697 4045
Email: nationalfrontierapprovalsunit@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk
Website: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.htm

17. Enquiries about use of Customs Freight Simplified Procedure ( CFSP) should be addressed to HMRC:

Tel: 0845 010 9000
Website: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/index.ht