Change in Finnish Regulations
The Finnish National Board of Agriculture has released the following list of goods which require a phytosanitary certificate as of 1. January, 1988:
Customs tariff headings Goods
06.01 10.10/20.99 Bulbs, tubers, tuberous roots, corms, crowns and rhizomes, dormant, in growth or in flower.
06.02 Other live plants (including their roots), cuttings and slips; mushroom spawn.
06.03 10.91/ex 92 - gypsophila.
07.01 Potatoes, fresh or chilled
10.00 - seed potatoes
90.00 - others.
ex 07.03 10.00 Onions, shallots, leeks and other alliaceous vegetables (except garlic):
90.11/90 - for planting purposes.
ex 07.06 10.11/90.22 Carrots, turnips, salad beetroot, salsify, celeriac, radishes and similar edible roots, fresh or chilled, unwashed.
07.14 ex 90.20 Jerusalem artichokes, unwashed.
12.12 ex 91.00 Sugar beets, fresh
12.14 ex 90.90 Peat (including peat litter), whether or not agglomerated.
44.01 ex 10.00 Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms;
21.00 - wood in chips or particles: Coniferous
ex 30.00 - wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms.
44.03 Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared.
* For commodities 44.01 and 44.03, Phytosanitary Certificates are required only when imported from non-European countries.
As of 1. January 1988, other vegetables (e.g. tomatoes, paprika, cauliflower, etc.) are exempted from the Phytosanitary Certificate (PC) requirement. A PC is nevertheless still required for vegetables which are kept in a short-term preservation medium (e.g. brine) and for root vegetables which are neither washed nor peeled and thus still carry adherent soil (e.g. potatoes, carrots, etc.). The latter decision came into force on 20 January 1988.
Sources
National Board of Agriculture, Finland.