Exemptions from plant health rules for importing or movement of plants, plant products, soil, etc. for scientific purposes and certain other purposes
You apply here for an exemption from the plant health regulation. The purpose of the derogation is enabling import of quarantine pests or materials for scientific purposes, official testing, educational purposes, trials, varietal selection or breeding, that would otherwise be prohibited or fulfil special requirements.
Service information: There is currently no downtime planned.
What you need in order to apply
- Prepare all documents you plan to attach to your application, such as a map or overview of the facility with location designations. It must include all premises where the material is to be handled. There must also be an overview of each room with information on the location of doors, airlocks, ventilation hatches, openable windows, floor drains and other drains as well as supply and exhaust air.
- You can use the e-service on a computer, a tablet or a smartphone. We recommend that you use a computer or a tablet.
Application fee
The basic charge for processing an application is SEK 700, which includes the first hour administration. Additional time for administration is charged SEK 690 per hour.
The processing time is approximately a month, but may be longer in certain cases.
Visits, checks and fees
Quarantine pests may only be handled in facilities designated as containment facilities. If you have submitted an application where we judge that the facility needs to be designated as a containment facility, we will contact you for completion. We will then also visit your facilities in order to check the premises and how the routines for the work are organised before your permit is granted. The fee for this inspection visit is a basic fee of SEK 3,000, which includes one hour of our working time. Each additional hour will be charged with a fee of SEK 690 per hour.
Inspection of your activities may also take place while your work are in process. The basic fee for an inspection visit is SEK 3,000, which includes two hours’ work. A fee of SEK 950 per hour will be charged.
- vaxtinspektionen@jordbruksverket.se
- Quarantine pests
- Phytosanitary certificates and other measures against plant pests when trading with countries outside the EU
- Plant passport, traceability and other measures against pests when trading with plants and plant products in Sweden and the EU
Processing personal data
The Swedish Board of Agriculture processes the personal data you submit in your application in connection with processing permits, checks, statistics, information and for follow-up, evaluation and analysis. The legal ground for processing your personal data is the exercise of public authority. The data is processed electronically. The personal data about you is shared with other public authorities, municipalities and individuals pursuant to EU legislation and regulations.
The Swedish Board of Agriculture will store data in accordance with the rules for archive management by public authorities. Contact our customer service department if you wish to have access to the data we process about you.
Accessibility of the e-service
We want as many as possible to use our e-service. Read about how our e‑service complies with the legislation on accessibility to digital public service, any known accessibility problems and how you can report deficiencies to us.