Policy paper

Plant health: provisional common framework

How the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together on plant health policy.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 3 February 2022

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

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Provisional UK common framework on plant health

Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3051-1, CP 612

PDF, 453 KB, 35 pages

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This command paper sets out how the UK government and devolved governments propose to work together in key areas of plant health policy. This includes:

• requirements in relation to the import into, and internal movement of, plants and plant products (including wood and wood products)
• UK risk assessment of new plant pests and outbreak management
• assurance and auditing of policies across Great Britain to protect plant biosecurity
• exports of plants and plant products from the UK

The provisional common framework has received ministerial approval from all 4 governments. It was laid in the UK Parliament to enable parliamentary scrutiny to begin.

Published 3 February 2022