last updated: 22/01/2021
Fertiliser Regulations and Brexit
The UK has left the EU.
The four UK administrations continue to work together to ensure fertiliser regulations remain operable and allow continued protection of human health and the environment, and stability for businesses and consumers.
Rules from 1 January 2021
The current EC label requirement will be replaced with a UK label requirement and conformity tests will be required to be carried out by UK labs. There will be a two year transition period for fertilisers marketed in the UK under current EU regulations, that is, products sold as EC fertilisers can continue to be marketed in the UK with the same packaging for two years as long as they continue to comply with EU regulations. We expect supply of fertilisers to remain consistent.
More information on the new UK fertiliser label, trading with the EU and EEA and ammonium nitrate imports can be found in a guidance note, prepared by Defra in consultation with the devolved administrations.
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