MatDz wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 9:34 pm
I don't think I can tick any of the checkboxes, but the updated link no longer refers to (I assume it did) professional or amateur operators when talking about plant passports, that's what worries me most.
Mat I think your regard for trying to do what's right is commendable, but my personal view, after chasing the information available, is that nothing has changed with regard to need for registration to issue plant passports, when that document amateurs.pdf was published by Defra I think in July 2020, after they promised to provide further guidance earlier in the year. I am pretty sure that was their last word.
I would not expect a revision document (the new guidance issued regarding Brexit changes) on specific new changes to repeat all the information on the basic outline of the scheme. The passport scheme has been in force for a while now - over a year -and I am sure any changes as to requirements for registration would have been detailed in new guidance documents eg "Issue plant passports to move regulated plant material in Great Britain" revised and dated 31st Dec.
In my personal view it remains the case, even with Brexit, that if I am not "professionally" involved in plant growing and sales and any such selling, whether direct or remote, is minor, irregular and ancillary to a hobby, not backed up by a regular plant list or sales web site etc, I am outside the scope of passports. There is quite a lot of further government advice, explaining further consequences of Brexit, but none of it changing what I've said. EU plant passports are no longer valid in the UK, for example, but GB plant passports will be acceptable in the EU for the first half of next year.
