If it is not done at Huntingdon, it will be done elsewhere. The EU is the organisation that causes much of the testing to be done. Austria thought it would show goodwill at Christmas by sending Christmas trees to Germany and Italy . In both cases border guards impounded the trees because they were too long for EU roads . Small nurserymen and plant breeders can be put out of business under new registration regulations .
Rules regarding the phyto sanitation certificates are in chaos.
MAFF is to charge 83 per hour to inspect a nursery to grant a plant health passport. The EU Forest Reproductive Material Directive is based in the Nazi race laws. If a tree looks racially pure then its seeds can be used. Many British oaks are hybrids of pedunculate and sessile strains. These are highly successful in the British climate but it is forbidden to sell the acorns for replanting.