Upcoming changes to Plant Health Certifications.

What is changing?

• APHA have announced that pre-notifications for low-risk fruit and vegetables, from the EU or are of non-EU origin but have entered free circulation in the EU, will no longer be required
• Only required to pre-notify Medium/High-Risk goods
• Low-risk goods are all those not listed in High or Medium Risk categories.

When is it changing?

The IPAFFS requirement will be removed on 17th November 2023, and will not require any Phytosanitary certificates when the new BTOM risk categories go live in January 2024.

What will need an IPAFFS?

These changes mean that most Plants/Plant products that we see will fall into this low-risk category. However, you need to know what type of goods ARE a higher risk, so that we can ensure that these are declared properly when they do come in.

From 31st January 2024, all Medium and High-Risk Plant products will need to be accompanied by Phytosanitary certificates, low-risk continue without IPAFFS or Phyto. Imports that would have required phytosanitary certificates will not require a frontier declaration anymore

Risk categories can still change, so you should still check Trade Tariff and keep up to date with changes on the APHA portal.

If you need further clarification we'd be happy to help.