{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-etc-miscellaneous-fees-amendment-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-etc-miscellaneous-fees-amendment-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2024/617",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Health etc. (Miscellaneous Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-health-etc-miscellaneous-fees-amendment-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "text": "(1) The Plant Health etc. (Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2018 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 3 (import inspection fees)—\n(a) for paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) The fee payable by the importer of a third country consignment in respect of a documentary check of each phytosanitary certificate or phytosanitary certificate for re-export accompanying the consignment is—\n(a) in the case of a consignment originating in Liechtenstein containing any plant or plant products falling within the table in Schedule 2B and also within the Schedule to the Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022, £5.25;\n(b) in the case of a consignment to which sub-paragraph (a) does not apply, originating in an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland and containing only plants or plant products all falling within the table in Schedule 2B, £0.15;\n(c) in any other case, £5.25.”;\n(b) for paragraph (2E) substitute—\n“(2E) No fee is payable under paragraph (2A) in respect of—\n(a) any consignment originating in an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland introduced into Wales through a relevant port before 31 October 2024, or\n(b) any plants listed in the table in Schedule 2A to the Plant Health (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 contained in any consignment originating in an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland introduced into Wales before 31 October 2024.\n(2EA) Paragraph (2E) does not apply to any goods—\n(a) in a consignment originating in Liechtenstein, and\n(b) falling within the Schedule to the Official Controls (Plant Health) (Frequency of Checks) Regulations 2022.”\n(c) in paragraph (2G), before sub-paragraph (a), for “, the table and Schedule 2A” substitute “and the table”;\n(d) in paragraph (3)—\n(i) after sub-paragraph (d), insert—\n“(da) “relevant port” means any of the following seaports—\n(i) Barry;\n(ii) Cardiff;\n(iii) Fishguard;\n(iv) Holyhead;\n(v) Newport;\n(vi) Pembroke Dock;\n(vii) Swansea;\n(viii) Port Talbot;”;\n(ii) omit sub-paragraph (g).\n(3) For Schedule 1 (import inspection fees), substitute—\n“SCHEDULE 1\nImport inspection fees\nRegulation 3(2A) and (2C)\nColumn 1\nCategory and description of plant, plant product or other object\nColumn 2\nCountry of origin\nColumn 3\nFee: Physical check (£)\nColumn 4\nFee: Identity check (£)\n(1) “Intended for final users” means intended, by evidence from the packaging, labelling or by other means, for direct supply to final users.\n(2) “Woody plants” means plants which have a woody or partly woody stem, and includes all trees, forest reproductive material (other than seed), shrubs and palms, and those vines and perennial herbs with woody or partly woody stems; and for this purpose “perennial herbs” means herbs for which the average life exceeds two years.\n(3) “Non-woody plants” means plants that are not woody plants.\n(4) “Indoor plants” means plants which appear from their packaging, labelling or by other means to be intended for direct supply to final users for indoor use or use in aquaria.\n(5) “European third countries” means Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canary Islands, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia (only the following parts: Central Federal District (Tsentralny federalny okrug), Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug), Southern Federal District (Yuzhny federalny okrug), North Caucasian Federal District (Servero-Kavkazsky federalny okrug) and Volga Federal District (Privolzhsky federalny okrug)), San Marino, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.\nBulbs, corms, rhizomes, tubers (other than tubers of potatoes), onions, shallots, garlic, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables, dormant, not in substrate\nAll genera intended for planting, other than commercial flower production, and not intended for final users\nAny third country\n205.04\n5.25\nAll genera intended for planting, and intended for commercial flower production, or for final users\nAny third country\n20.50\n0.52\nCuttings, seedlings intended for planting, not specified or included anywhere else in this table\nAll genera\nAny third country\n32.15\n1.57\nPlants for planting\nWoody plants (other than specified or included elsewhere in this table), intended for planting and intended for final users . All genera\nAny third country\n32.15\n1.57\nNon-woody plants (other than specified or included elsewhere in this table), intended for planting. All genera\nAny third country\n32.15\n1.57\nIndoor plants. All genera\nAny third country\n32.15\n1.57\nOther plants (other than specified or included elsewhere in this table), intended for planting. All genera\nAny third country\n32.15\n1.57\nCut flowers\nDendranthema (DC.) Des Moul. (Chrysanthemum L.)\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.28\n0.15\nColumbia or Ecuador\n21.37\n2.62\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Columbia, Ecuador, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.13\n0.26\nEryngium Tournier ex Linnaeus.\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, European third country, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n4.27\n0.52\nLisianthus L\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, European third country, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n4.27\n0.52\nRosa L.\nColombia or Ecuador\n1.28\n0.15\nCanada, India, Mexico or the USA\n21.37\n2.62\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Canada, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Switzerland or the USA\n2.13\n0.26\nSolidago L.\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.28\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n4.27\n0.52\nOther genera not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.28\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.13\n0.26\nBranches with foliage, parts of conifers (other than bark or cut Christmas trees)\nAll genera\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.01\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.69\n0.26\nFruit, vegetables, leaves\nMomordica L.\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n26.55\n2.62\nOcimum L.\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.15\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n35.84\n2.62\nSolanaceae Juss. (other than Solanum tuberosum L. Solanum lycopersicum L, Solanum melongena L. and Capsicum sp.)\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n26.55\n2.62\nSolanum lycopersicum L.\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nMorocco\n2.65\n0.26\nCanary Islands\n13.27\n1.31\nAny third country other than the Canary Islands, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein, Morocco or Switzerland\n53.10\n5.25\nSolanum melongena L.\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nTurkey\n15.93\n1.57\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein, Switzerland or Turkey\n26.55\n2.62\nCapsicum\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n53.10\n5.25\nZea mays\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n53.10\n5.25\nIpomoea batatas\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than Cameroon, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nCameroon\n53.10\n5.25\nPersea americana\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nVitis\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nMalus\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nEuropean third countries\n7.96\n0.78\nArgentina\n18.58\n1.83\nChile\n2.65\n0.26\nNew Zealand\n5.31\n0.52\nSouth Africa\n7.96\n0.78\nAny third country other than Argentina, Chile, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, South Africa, Switzerland or European Third countries\n53.10\n5.25\nPyrus\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nArgentina\n13.27\n1.31\nChile\n7.96\n0.78\nSouth Africa\n5.31\n0.52\nAny third country other than Argentina, Chile, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein, South Africa or Switzerland\n53.10\n5.25\nFragaria\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nRubus\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nVaccinium\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nEuropean third countries\n26.55\n2.62\nArgentina\n13.27\n1.31\nChile\n5.31\n0.52\nPeru\n5.31\n0.52\nAny third country other than Argentina, Chile, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein, Peru, Switzerland or European Third Countries\n53.10\n5.25\nZingiber officinale\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than Cameroon, an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nCameroon\n53.10\n5.25\nAsparagus officinalis\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n53.10\n5.25\nOther genera or species of fruit or vegetables not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n1.59\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.65\n0.26\nOther leaves not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n2.15\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n3.58\n0.26\nSeeds (for sowing), tissue cultures\nAll genera, for trials or testing\nAny third country\n12.81\n0.52\nBrassicaceae (other than for trials or testing)\nArgentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand or Uruguay\n128.13\n5.25\nCapsicum spp. L. (other than for trials or testing)\nAny third country\n128.13\n5.25\nPoaceae (other than for trials or testing)\nArgentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand or Uruguay\n128.13\n5.25\nSolanum lycopersicum L. (other than for trials or testing)\nAny third country\n128.13\n5.25\nSolanum tuberosum L. (True seed) (other than for trials or testing)\nAny third country\n128.13\n5.25\nTrifolium spp. (other than for trials or testing)\nArgentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand or Uruguay\n128.13\n5.25\nOther genera or species not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nAny third country\n6.40\n0.26\nGrain (other than seeds for sowing)\nSecale L.\nAfghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa or the USA\n142.98\n5.25\nTriticum L.\nAfghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa or the USA\n142.98\n5.25\nX Triticosecale Wittm. ex A. Camus\nAfghanistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, South Africa or the USA\n142.98\n5.25\nTubers of potatoes\nSolanum tuberosum L. (seed potatoes)\nAny third country\n156.69\n5.25\nSolanum tuberosum L. (ware potatoes)\nEgypt, Poland, Portugal or Romania\n78.34\n2.62\nSpain\n156.69\n5.25\nAny third country other than Egypt, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain\n4.70\n0.15\nCut Christmas trees (less than 3 metres in height)\nAll genera\nAny EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n3.58\n0.15\nAny third country other than an EU Member State, Liechtenstein or Switzerland\n5.98\n0.26\nMachinery or vehicles which have been operated for agricultural or forestry purposes\nAny third country\n5.98\n0.26\n”.\n(4) Omit Schedule 2A (list of plants and plant products originating in an EU member state, Liechtenstein or Switzerland subject to fees for physical checks and identity checks from the end of the transitional staging period).\n(5) Before Schedule 3, insert—\n“SCHEDULE 2B\nRegulation 3(2)(a) and (b)\nCategory and description of plant or plant product\nCut Flowers\nDendranthema (DC.) Des Moul. (Chrysanthemum L.)\nRosa L.\nSolidago L.\nOther genera not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nBranches with foliage, parts of conifers (other than bark or cut Christmas trees)\nAll genera\nFruit, vegetables, leaves\nMomordica L.\nOcimum L.\nSolanaceae Juss. (other than Solanum tuberosum L.)\nSolanum melongena L.\nOther genera or species of fruit or vegetables not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nOther leaves not specified or included elsewhere in this table\nCut Christmas trees (less than 3 metres in height)\nAll genera\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2018/1179 (W. 238), amended by S.I. 2022/804 (W. 180); there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2022/739, amended by S.I. 2023/959."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "(1) “Intended for final users” means intended, by evidence from the packaging, labelling or by other means, for direct supply to final users."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "(2) “Woody plants” means plants which have a woody or partly woody stem, and includes all trees, forest reproductive material (other than seed), shrubs and palms, and those vines and perennial herbs with woody or partly woody stems; and for this purpose “perennial herbs” means herbs for which the average life exceeds two years."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "(3) “Non-woody plants” means plants that are not woody plants."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "(4) “Indoor plants” means plants which appear from their packaging, labelling or by other means to be intended for direct supply to final users for indoor use or use in aquaria."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "(5) “European third countries” means Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canary Islands, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia (only the following parts: Central Federal District (Tsentralny federalny okrug), Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny federalny okrug), Southern Federal District (Yuzhny federalny okrug), North Caucasian Federal District (Servero-Kavkazsky federalny okrug) and Volga Federal District (Privolzhsky federalny okrug)), San Marino, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/617/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:00:49.625399+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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