Guidance and regulation

Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 8 May 2024

Rules for importing, exporting and moving fresh fruit and vegetables to, from and around the UK.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 May 2024

How growers and traders can get authorised as a professional operator to issue plant passports, when you need to be authorised and plants that need passports.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 4 April 2024

How to apply for national listing of agricultural and vegetable plant varieties in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 9 February 2024

What growers and traders need to do to move plants (including plants for planting, seeds, used agricultural and forestry machinery and vehicles and seed potatoes) using a Northern Ireland plant health label (NIPHL).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 1 February 2024

The U10 exemption allows you to spread specific waste on agricultural land to replace manufactured fertilisers or virgin materials (such as lime) to improve or maintain soil.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 20 July 2022

Allocation coefficients and decisions

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 17 January 2023

How to get plant breeders' rights and what protection it gives your plant varieties.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 9 February 2024

The seeds which must be certified before you can market them, how to get them certified and how to get a licence for your seed business.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 27 December 2023

How to apply for certification, the register of growers and fees for crop and tuber inspections under the Seed Potato Classification Scheme (SPCS).

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 13 December 2023

Find out about the Fruit and Vegetables Aid Scheme.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 29 July 2022

Protocols and procedures for testing the value for cultivation or use (VCU) of agricultural crops.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 13 March 2024

How much it costs to apply for plant breeders’ rights or to add a new plant variety to the national list.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 13 December 2023

Plants and wood that need a plant passport for movement within Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 7 September 2021

What you need to do as a food and drink business to work with the EU.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 28 July 2021

Allocation coefficients and decisions

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 12 January 2024

Protocols and procedures for testing the distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) of certain agricultural and vegetable plants.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 25 April 2024

Farm Saved Seed rules, eligible species for payment and how to declare and make payments online.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 14 September 2021

Find out what a producer organisation (PO) is and the benefits of joining one.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 11 January 2024

Instructions for crop inspectors on seed certification in England and Wales.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 18 January 2018