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Plants and Plant Products

  • All imports of regulated plants and plant products from Great Britain are subject to mandatory checks at the BCP.  
  • The Irish importer must register with the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine. The Department’s online registration form here provides a quick and easy way to register to import or export. Only registered traders approved to import may import products of animal origin directly from third countries.  
  • As the importer, you must decide who the operator responsible for the consignment will be. You may decide to carry out these functions yourself, within your own business, or you may decide to engage an agent to do this on your behalf.  

Register with Trade Control & Expert System - New Technologies (TRACES). Both the organisation and the individual people within that organisation requiring access to TRACES must be registered in order to be able to have the relevant authorisations. Once registered as an importer DAFM will provide you with the TRACES application form. Both the importer and the operator responsible for the consignment must be registered on TRACES.  

  • The Operator responsible for the consignment must register for access to the DAFM Imports Notification Inspection System (INIS Portal). 
  • All imports of regulated plants and plant products must be accompanied by a Phytosanitary Certificate. Ensure your GB supplier is in a position to email you a colour scanned copy of the phytosanitary cert. For consignments entering via Dublin Airport the Original Phytosanitary Certificate must accompany the consignment. For consignments entering via Dublin Sea Port the original Phytosanitary Certificate must not accompany the Consignment, arrange for your UK supplier to post you the original Phytosanitary Certificate instead.

The operator responsible for the consignment must provide:-

  • 24 hours prior notification of the arrival of the consignment by submitting Part 1 of the Common Health Entry Document (CHED PP) in TRACES. Log in.  
  • 24 hours before arrival of the consignment to the BCP, send a notification to DAFM using the imports portal. Person responsible for the consignment includes all relevant details requested by the Imports portal, e.g. Movement Reference Number, CHED number, means of transport, packaging, invoice etc.
  • A scanned Copy of the Original Phytosanitary Certificate (colour scan of original) must be uploaded to the Imports Portal. (The portal will prescribe the mandatory documents which must be uploaded).  
  • All imports are subject to documentary, identity and physical checks. These checks are subject to fees.  
  • For Shipments via sea the original Phytosanitary Certificate along with the printed cover page of the relevant CHED-PP, Clearance Cert must be posted to: Horticulture & Plant Health Division, Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine, 2nd Floor, Administration Building, Backweston Campus, Celbridge , Co. Kildare, W23 X3P. 
  • Wood Packaging Material (WPM) associated with all categories of goods, not just those subject to SPS controls, are subject to controls and are required to meet ISPM 15 (International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures). 
  • All information regarding registration with DAFM, registration with TRACES, procedures for import, documents required for import, WPM and fees can be found at: https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/?referrer=http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/%20farmingsectors/planthealthtrade/registrationproceduresforimport/