In article ,
(Nick Maclaren) writes:
| In article ,
| p00kie wrote:
|
| Some plants ... not all and some have restrictions ...
| http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/impexp.htm
| Bear in mind that these rules are in place for many good reasons.
|
| And some bad ones. Which is better than for animal products, where
| the reasons (and rules) are almost entirely bad - indeed, actually
| malicious.
|
| I have my doubts that items 16 and especially 17 of schedule 3 are
| really relevant to the UK, but otherwise the documents look sane.
| NOTHING can justify rules such as banning private imports of over
| (say) 100 grammes of smoked meat while leaving smaller quantities
| and commercial imports uncontrolled.

Upon checking, that is demented. Item 17 is clearly aimed at
bayoud disease, the international recommendation says that infected
date palms and henna should not be imported into date-producing
countries, so the UK has banned importing date palms but not henna.

Still, it isn't a significant issue, as few people are likely to
want to import plants of either, neither is easy to grow in the UK,
and we most definitely do NOT have commercial crops of either :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.