Defra Announce Changes to Medium Risk Fruit & Vegetable Products
18 Sept 2024
After further scientific review of commodities across all plant and plant product risk categories, there will be changes to the risk categorisation of certain plants and plant products listed in Annex 11 which come into legislation on 30 January 2025.
7 commodity groups (see full list below) will move from the medium-risk to low-risk category, therefore deregulated, when being imported into GB from the EU and Switzerland.
Alongside this, two commodities, asparagus and grapes will be moving within the medium-risk category when being imported into GB. Asparagus will be moving from the medium-risk B to medium-risk A category from the EU, Switzerland and Liechtenstein and grapes will be moving from medium-risk A to the medium-risk B category from the EU and Switzerland.