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Old 01-04-2008, 10:08 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Plant Passports!!!


In article ,
Sacha writes:
| On 1/4/08 09:17, in article , "Nick
| Maclaren" wrote:
| In article ,
| K writes:
| | David in Normandy writes
| |
| | People such as me who live in France will need to have
| | "Plant Passports" certified by DEFRA saying that any plants
| | I bring over to the UK are approved for transfer. Have the
| | EU bureaucrats gone mad?
|
| Are you sure that it is the EU that have gone mad, and that isn't
| Whitehall again? Where did you read that article? And is France
| introducing the same rules?
|
| http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pass.htm

That doesn't say what effect there is on private importation, and
a quick look at the regulations indicates that there were THREE
amending orders in 2007 alone! It could take me a couple of days
to find out what the law is :-(


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.