Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture

The Institute performs the administration and carries out some other administrative activities, expert and testing tasks and control and monitoring activities in accordance with special acts in the areas of plant variety testing, feedingstuffs, agrochemical testing of soils, soils and plant nutrition, seeds and seedlings of the grown plants, perennial plants (viniculture and hops), protection against harmful organisms and plant protection.

Import control of wood packaging material at EU border

31. 1. 2023

The wood packaging material, when imported into EU, has to be treated and marked according to international standard ISPM 15. Any other certificate is not required. There are no other obligations for importers to present their gooods at the border of EU territory.

Wood packaging material poses a risk of pest transport. Generally, there are no capacities of competent authorities for official control of all the industrial consignments with wood packing. Full scope of import checks would also inflict trade flow burden.

The wood packaging material, when imported into EU, has to be treated and marked according to international standard ISPM 15. Any other certificate is not required.

There are no other obligations for importers to present their gooods at the border of EU territory.