Dahlia spp

Country
New Zealand (NZ)
Group
Nursery stock
End use
Tissue culture
NPPO Details
Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)
Relevant Web Addresses
<span style="text-decoration:underline;">https://www.mpi.govt.nz/</span>
Criteria Criteria Required?
Import Permit No
Phytosanitary Certificate Yes
Additional Declaration/Endorsement Yes
Protocol Market No

Consignments are to be free from pests, soil, weed seeds and extraneous material.

Where applicable, the exporter is to provide evidence attesting to the endorsement and present it to the Authorised Officer at the time of inspection.

Plants in tissue culture must be produced in a facility under conditions that prevent contamination with regulated pests.

Cultures imported in growing media must have been grown in the vessel in which they are imported. The container must be pest-proof, rigid and either clear plastic or glass. The culture must not contain any antibiotics or fungicides (see wording 2.2.2.2).


The number of flasks / tubs / tubes in the consignment are to be declared on the phytosanitary certificate at all times.

Labelling:

All flasks / tubs / tubes of cultures in the consignment must be clearly identified with their scientific name (genus and species).

Note:
  • Laboratory test results conducted overseas of parent/mother plants can be endorsed when attesting to the below additional declarations.
Explanation of the endorsements

Endorsements 6351 or 6352:

Applies to consignments exported:
  • while in growing media

Endorsements 6353 or 6354:
 
Applies to consignments exported:
  • without the growing media (plantlets removed from the growing media prior to export)

Option 1 (EXDOC Endorsement 6351)
1) The plants in this consignment have been produced in a pest free area where Potato spindle tuber viroid is not known to occur.
2) The cultures have been derived from parent stock tested and found free of virus diseases.

Option 2 (EXDOC Endorsement 6352)
1) The plants in this consignment have been produced in a pest free place of production where parent plants were tested according to an NPPO approved methodology and found free from Potato spindle tuber viroid.
2) The cultures have been derived from parent stock tested and found free of virus diseases.
Option 3 (EXDOC Endorsement 6353)
1) The plants in this consignment have been produced in a pest free area where Potato spindle tuber viroid is not known to occur.

2) The cultures have been derived from parent stock tested and found free of virus diseases.

3) The plantlets were removed from the original culture container(s) in which they were grown, not more than 48 hours before export, and have not been in contact with any other growing media.
Option 4 (EXDOC Endorsement 6354)
1) The plants in this consignment have been produced in a pest free place of production where parent plants were tested according to an NPPO approved methodology and found free from Potato spindle tuber viroid.

2) The cultures have been derived from parent stock tested and found free of virus diseases.
3) The plantlets were removed from the original culture container(s) in which they were grown, not more than 48 hours before export, and have not been in contact with any other growing media.

NPPO conditions 16 March 2022
21/03/2022 - Updated general requirements section to include new note.
24/02/2022 - Updated endorsements according to NPPO requirements.
Initial Uploaded: 01/10/2014
Reviewed Uploaded: 18/07/2026