Deliveries to the EU

It is with regret that we must suspend shipping to EU (hopefully only temporarily).

The current complications caused by the new customs and plant health controls are making shipments outside the UK impractical.

A combination of Covid19, Brexit and the lack of sufficient numbers of plant health inspectors have lead to this.

Shipments of plants from the UK are now subject to full phytosanitary controls, involving the costly inspections and certification which is done on each individual consignment. Given the exorbitant fees charged by the APHA to complete the necessary documentation we are unable to absorb or subsidise the costs and we feel it unreasonable to subject customers to these hefty charges.

The current fees (taken from the Gov.uk website on 07-02-2021, and subject to change at their whim) are:

There are fees for plant health services delivered by APHA in England and Wales you must pay for.

The fees are £63.80, with a minimum fee of £127.60.

The fees are payable for each 15 minutes (or part thereof) spent in carrying out the inspection and any associated activities. Associated activities include the time it takes inspectors to travel to your site and any administration relevant to that inspection, subject to the minimum fees.

• Issue of a PC fee is £25.52 per certificate.
• Laboratory examination fee is £33.56 per sample tested.
• Amendment of a certificate at the request of an exporter is £15.76.

An additional fee of £15.76 is charged if you submit an application for an export in paper form rather than online using eDomero.

It is our intention to review the practicality of collating several orders for inspection at the same time, thus spreading the inspection costs between several orders and keeping the costs as minimal as possible per order.

If any EU customers wish to bear the costs outlined above on an individual order rather than wait, we are happy to look into this option. Please contact us with your requirements.