It is prohibited to transfer plants without appropriate phytosanitary documents in postal consignments.
Phytosanitary certificate
The phytosanitary certificate shall be attached, if the plants are received from third countries. When dispatching plants to third countries, national requirements must be taken into account. A phytosanitary certificate shall only be issued for plants when specific requirements of the laws and regulations on plant quarantine have been met (appropriate checks have been carried out, samples have been removed, etc.).
Plant passport
The plant passport shall be attached if the plants are sent or received to/from other EU as well as Switzerland. A plant passport shall be a document in the form of a label affixed to the plant/plants or their packaging and certifying that the plants have been inspected and meet phytosanitary requirements.
“Plants” means live plants and the following live parts of plants:
- seeds, other than seeds not intended for planting.
- Fruit in the botanical sense.
- Vegetables
- tubers, tuber bulbs, onions, rhinoceros, roots, rootstocks.
- Shoots, trunks, stems and strings.
- Cut flowers
- branches with or without leaves.
- Sawn trees with foliage
- plant tissue cultures including cell cultures, genetic material, meristems, chimeric clones, micropropagated material.
- Living pollen and spores.