Edit Tthn Lippai HU

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Session 4Preparation and Issuing of Plant
Passports

• Edit Tóthné Lippai (HU)

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Plant Passport

• The Plant Passport consists of a label and
  accompanying document that require certain plants
  and plant products in order to circulate within
  the EU.
• According to the plant material used by a
  company, it can be compulsory to issue a plant
  passport.
• According to activity developed by the company
  (producer, trader, or producer-trader), it can
  make mandatory the use of a RP Plant Passport.
• The geographical destination of plant materials
  can also make obligatory the use of a ZP Plant
  Passport.

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Legal base

• 2000/29/EC directive,
• 92/105/EC directive
• 92/90/EEC directive
• 93/50/EEC directive
• 93/51/EEC directive

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Who issues?

• Responsible official body,
• Producer,
• Trader.

Authorization
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The form

• No standard form
• Specific data
• Two main data
• serial PP number and
• registration number of the producer

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Data

• 1. 'EEC-plant passport'
• 2. EC Member State code
• 3. Responsible official body (code).
• 4. Registration number.
• 5. Individual serial, or week or batch number.
• 6. Botanical name.
• 7. Quantity.
• 8. 'ZP' for the territorial validity of the
  passport and, where appropriate, the name of the
  protected zone(s) for which the product is
  qualified.
• 9. 'RP' in case of replacement of a plant
  passport and, where appropriate, the code for the
  originally registered producer or importer.
• 10. Where appropriate, the name of the country of
  origin or consignor country, for third country
  products.

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Issuing

• split between labels attached to the plants or
  plant products and the delivery note or other
  document accompanying the consignment.
• on labels attached to the plants, plant products
  or their packaging, without appearing on a
  delivery note or accompanying document.

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With PP or without - on the same delivery note?

• Possible? YES
• With putting to the plants listed on the
  delivery note.

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tradeable unit

• plants of the same variety, grown in the same
  lot, by the same producer and destined for the
  same customer,
• Differences between the points of Annex V.

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Protected Zones

• the code ZP may appear on the passport followed
  by the appropriate reference from the Annex to
  the EC Directive which lists Protected Zones
  (Commission Directive 2001/32/EC (as amended))
  (ZP a1)
• Or ZP-AU

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Replacement Plant Passport

• In case of splitting or mixing plants with PP for
  sale or movement,
• the registration number of the original producer
  must be shown

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Obligations

• Who is issuing
• Keeping records of issuing PP,
• Fulfil Requirements of registration

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Obligations

• Who is getting PP
• Retain for at least one year,
• keep records - storage or planting or sold
  (manually or computer database)
• If passports are required but missing, the
  supplier must be asked to provide them.

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Special cases

• Certified plants for planting,
• Fruit trees,
• Vitis,
• Berry plants,
• Forestry
• Ornamental plants,
• Seed potato,
• Ware potato.

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Do I need a plant passport?

• The Plant Passport system applies only to
  commercial transactions within the horticultural
  trade. So forget it.
• The for personal use philosophy appears to
  apply in this case a few plants will raise no
  questions.
• If you want to move plants, seeds, bulbs or cut
  flowers for your personal use, within the EU, you
  can do so without the need for any plant health
  certificates providing they are within your own
  luggage, not intended for any trading purpose,
  and free of pests and diseases.
• There are no statutory border checks for plants
  travelling between EC member states.
• (from Scottish Office)

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Thank you for your kind attention!

• Coffee time