UK secures equivalence status for its seeds

About 6,000 tonnes of the seed potatoes from the UK were estimated to be going to Ireland, with 60% of the certified seed that is planted in Ireland coming from Scotland.

The UK had been exporting an estimated 30,000 tonnes of seed potatoes to EU countries, worth £13.5m, the majority of which comes from Scotland.

The EU has granted equivalence status to the UK for the purposes of production and marketing of fodder crop, beet, cereal, and oilseed seeds in EU member states.

As a result of Brexit, there had been problems in the importation of seeds from GB.