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Trees and other plants – New Zealand

Official title

Ministry for Primary Industries, Import Health Standard: Fresh Cut Flowers and Foliage for Decorative Purposes (155.02.04)

New Zealand issued an addendum on 6 November 2025 to the earlier SPS notification G/SPS/N/NZL/775. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 19 November 2024. The comment period closed on 7 February 2025.

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At a glance

Products

Fresh cut flowers and foliage for decorative purposes

HS codes
  • 06 · Trees and other plants, live; bulbs, roots and the like; cut flowers and ornamental foliage
    • 06031 Fresh:
    • 060420 Foliage, branches and other parts of plants, without flowers or flower buds, and grasses, mosses and lichens, being goods of a kind suitable for bouquets or…
Notifying member
New Zealand
Status
Updated: check whether it is now adopted or in force
Objectives
  • Plant protection
  • Protect territory from other damage from pests
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/NZL/775Latest notice: G/SPS/N/NZL/775/Add.1
Keywords
Plant health, Territory protection, Adoption/publication/entry into force of reg., Change in date of adoption/publication/entry into force

Key dates

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Comment deadline
Closed on 7 February 2025
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The comment period closed on 7 February 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/NZL/775/Add.1; it can take them up with New Zealand.

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What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/SPS/N/NZL/775/Add.1⁩, 6 November 2025)

Issuance of import health standard for Fresh Cut Flowers and Foliage for Decorative Purposes

Adoption date of regulation: 6 November 2025 This addendum concerns the issuance and entry into force of the previously notified import health standard Fresh Cut Flowers and Foliage for Decorative Purposes. This import health standard was notified in G/SPS/N/NZL/775 dated 19 November 2024 with the adoption, publication, and entry into force date of 1 March 2025. The new date of adoption, publication, and entry into force is 6 November 2025.

The proposed standard will replace the three current standards (Cut Flowers and Foliage, Cut Flowers and Branches Cordyline and Dracaena Species from All Countries, and Oncidium Cut Flowers). We are proposing several key changes to what can be imported, and to our import requirements. Adding 36 new plant genera and remove 78 plant genera. This would bring the total genera available to import to 136; Cut flowers and foliage will be available from 26 countries instead of 14; There will be additional requirements to manage pests on 57 host genera; We will no longer require any cut flowers and foliage to be devitalised. Further details can be found within the Risk Management Proposal document.

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. AddendumG/SPS/N/NZL/775/Add.1

    Issuance of import health standard for Fresh Cut Flowers and Foliage for Decorative Purposes

    Adoption date of regulation: 6 November 2025 This addendum concerns the issuance and entry into force of the previously notified import health standard Fresh Cut Flowers and Foliage for Decorative Purposes. This import health standard was notified in G/SPS/N/NZL/775 dated 19 November 2024 with the adoption, publication, and entry into force date of 1 March 2025. The new date of adoption, publication, and entry into force is 6 November 2025.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)

  2. Regular notificationG/SPS/N/NZL/775

    Comment deadline: Closed on 7 February 2025

    Ministry for Primary Industries, Import Health Standard: Fresh Cut Flowers and Foliage for Decorative Purposes (155.02.04)

    The proposed standard will replace the three current standards (Cut Flowers and Foliage, Cut Flowers and Branches Cordyline and Dracaena Species from All Countries, and Oncidium Cut Flowers). We are proposing several key changes to what can be imported, and to our import requirements. Adding 36 new plant genera and remove 78 plant genera. This would bring the total genera available to import to 136; Cut flowers and foliage will be available from 26 countries instead of 14; There will be additional requirements to manage pests on 57 host genera; We will no longer require any cut flowers and foliage to be devitalised. Further details can be found within the Risk Management Proposal document.

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)

Sources

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