Horticulture and Plant Health Division
Background
The mission of the Horticulture and Plant Health Division is:
'To achieve the highest possible standards of plant health and to promote the development of an efficient primary horticultural sector'
The Horticulture and Plant Health Division is responsible for:
- formulating policies and measures to prevent the entry and spread of non-indigenous quarantine pests, to control regulated pests and to negotiate the defence of the national plant health (in co-operation with the Forest Service)
- the enforcement of marketing standards for fruit, vegetables, honey and potatoes.
Movement of Plants
- Movement of plants within the EC (Guide to the Plant Passport system) (doc 77Kb)
- Importation of Plants from outside the European Community (doc 21Kb)
- Potato - quarantine pests and diseases
- Phytophthora ramorum (doc 1,250Kb)
- Fireblight (doc 230Kb)
Marketing Standard for Fruit and Vegetables
Marketing Standard for Honey (PDF file 134KB) (pdf 134Kb)
"Parasites of the Honeybee" publication by Dr. Mary Coffey (PDF file 1.2MB) (pdf 1,224Kb)
Food Standards for Potatoes
- Potato standard summary (doc 22Kb)
Contact details:
Horticulture and Plant Health Division
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Block B, Maynooth Business Campus
Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Tel. 01-5053585
Fax. 01-5053564
National Catalogue of Agricultural Varieties
- National Catalogue of Agricultural Plant Varieties 2006 - IRELAND (doc 1,225Kb)
(download MS Word file 1.19MB)
The Official Journal of Plant Variety Rights
- The Official Journal of National Plant Variety Rights - January 2006 (doc 614Kb)
(MS Word file 614KB)
