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.

Wood packaging material

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.

Common import rules for wood packaging

30. 1. 2023

! EMERGENCY MEASURE on wood packaging material !

31. 1. 2023

WARNING!

7. 11. 2017

Inspectors ÚKZÚZ repeatedly come across the findings of unauthorized fake ISPM 15 marks on pallets as well as other wooden packaging material (WPM). All exporters using WPM should be aware of serious consequences at import check outside the EU following the use of illegible, incomplete, unauthorized or forged marks.