UK customs requirements

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hello,
I'd like to send a few tropaeolum seeds to a scottish grower ( and only tropaeolum ). It's a bit difficult for me because I'm not used to deal with all these  new customs regulations and phytosanitary requirements. I've visited the DEFRA website and browsed the BTOM risk categorisations on plants and seeds sent from the EU ( I'm from FRANCE ). I didn't find  tropaeolum in the list, so could assume seeds of this genus would be considered as "at low risk". It is quoted that no phytosanitary certificate would then be needed in this low risk category.
But I'd like to be sure of it. I don't want the seeds to be destroyed by the UK customs.
Please can anyone help?
Thanks a lot!
Jean-Patrick

[Yann]

Hi Jean-Patrick, there's almost no risks. For several months uk customs have changed rules about nuts and seeds (defra updates). You can simply declare nuts or food seeds, rice on packet. They don't need phyto certificate.
Tropaelum aren't in defra as high risk species, so you can ship.
Some brexit rules are stupid, you can't import Vicia seeds for vegetale use but orher Vicia are allowed, however all species host 3 diseases...

[ashley]

Yann, do you think that EU donors will now be able to send seed to the exchange independently as we did before Brexit, rather than collectively with a phyto cert as seemed necessary last year?

[Yann]

For large shipping phyto will ne mandatory.
Customs are lax but not for large order or in our case centralised donation.
I work each day with customs and i often talk with english, dutch officers i can ensure they don't care for few packets of seeds.
At our company we export roll of plants for our garden center customers, sometimes 1 or 2 rolls are missing on the phyto papers and they reach uk retailers without problem.
It's always riskey off course.