An operator, who wishes to commence economic activities as an importer, manufacturer or exporter of plants and plant products, must submit a respective notice of economic activities to enter the plant health register.
Notice of economic activity must be submitted by following professional operator who:
- imports into the European Union plants, plant products and other objects for which a phytosanitary certificate is required;
- exports outside the European Union plants, plant products, or other objects for which a phytosanitary certificate is required;
- grows ware potatoes on more than one hectare;
- grows seed potatoes
- is engaged in the production and marketing of cultivating material specified in subsection 5 (1) of the Plant Propagation and Plant Variety Rights Act;
- is engaged in the packaging and marketing of certified seeds (seeds of cereals, fodder crops, oil crops, fibre crops, and beets or vegetables, small packages of vegetables, fodder crops, or beet seeds, or seed blends of cereals, fodder crops, oil or fibre crops, or vegetables);
- markets plants with a plant passport obtained from another plant producer/distributor in large quantities directly to the end user (e.g. a garden centre);
- produces and markets the following plants intended for food (planted in a pot, regardless of the growing medium) to other companies - sage, rosemary;
- markets plants intended for planting through an e-shop;
- provides landscaping services to local municipality.
Legal bases
Activity in the field of plant health is regulated by the following legislation:
- Plant Protection Act;
- Plant Propagation and Plant Variety Rights Act;
- General Part of the Economic Activities Code Act;
- Government Regulation No. 21 “Statutes of the Plant Health Register”;
- Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council;
- Commission implementing regulation (EU) 2019/2072.
Completing and submitting a notice
Following information is given in a notice of economic activities:
- name, address and contact details of the professional operator;
- information on the location and total area of the production site;
- field of activity;
- genera of the plants and plant products;
- the details of the person in charge of plant health and packaging of certified seeds;
- commodity code for import.
You can submit a notice of economic activities:
- via the client portal of the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture (authentication is required);
- on paper to the plant health and propagating material department of the Agricultural and Food Board or to the county center of the location. Please contact [email protected] for paper form.
Payment of state fee
A state fee of 32 euros is applied for an entry into the plant health register.
A state fee of 42 euros is paid for the submission of a notice of economic activities by any means other than via the client portal of the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture. The state fee must be paid before the submission of the notice.
The state fee is to be paid to a bank account of the Ministry of Finance with reference number 2900082207:
- SEB – EE891010220034796011
- Swedbank – EE932200221023778606
- Luminor Bank – EE701700017001577198
- LHV Pank: EE777700771003813400.
No state fee is applied for the submission of a notice of amendment of data on the notice of economic activities or renouncement of economic activities.
Notification obligation
Registered operators must submit annually an update concerning any changes in the data. That submission shall take place by 30 April of each year with regard to the updating of the data of the preceding year. An application for updating the data of name, address and contact details of the professional operator shall be submitted no later than 30 days after the change in those data.
Renouncement of economic activities in the client portal
In case of renouncement of activities entered into the plant health register, the operator must state the end date of each economic activity.
In case of temporary renouncement of activities entered into the plant health register, the operator must state the dates of renouncement and re-commencement of economic activities.
Supervision
In case of renouncement of activities entered into the plant health register, the operator must state the end date of each economic activity.
In case of temporary renouncement of activities entered into the plant health register, the operator must state the dates of renouncement and re-commencement of economic activities.
Contact details
Substantive information
Riina Koidumaa, Agriculture and Food Board, phone: +372 504 1855, e-mail: [email protected]
Kristiina Talts, Agriculture and Food Board, phone: +372 5387 9711, e-mail: [email protected]
Registry information and technical questions
Client portal of the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Agriculture, e-mail: [email protected]
Services
Laws
- Plant Propagation and Plant Variety Rights Act
- Plant Protection Act
- General Part of the Economic Activities Code Act