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TOM risk categorisations

This page outlines the Border Target Operating Model (TOM) risk categorisation for plants and plant products from the European Union (EU). Further risk categorisation for goods from the Rest of the World, will be published in due course.

 

TOM High Risk

Group

Legislative Term

Country of origin

Plants for planting

Plants for planting, other than seeds 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Tubers

Tubers of Solanum tuberosum intended for planting (Seed potatoes)

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Tubers of Solanum tuberosum (ware potatoes)

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds

Seeds of Castanea 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Capsicum spp.

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Solanum lycopersicum

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Solanum tuberosum (true potato seed)

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Helianthus annuus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Medicago sativa

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Allium cepa

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Allium porrum

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Phaseolus cocineus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Pisum sativum 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Vicia faba 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Brassica napus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Brassica rapa 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Sinapis alba

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Glycine max

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds of Linum usitatissimum 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Branches, foliage or cut trees

Cut trees/branches of Conifers (Pinales) over 3m

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Bark

Isolated bark of Castanea

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Isolated bark of Conifers (Pinales) 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Isolated bark of Fraxinus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Isolated bark of Juglans mandshurica 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Isolated bark of Juglans ailantifolia

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Isolated bark of Ulmus davidiana 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Isolated bark of  Pterocarya

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood (including wood which has not kept it’s natural round surface)

Wood of Acer

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

 

Wood of Aesculus 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Alnus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Betula

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Carpinus

EU Member States (excluding Spain and Portugal), Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Conifers (Pinales) excluding wood which is bark free

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Conifers

Spain and Portugal

Wood of  Cercidiphyllum

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Corylus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Fagus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Fraxinus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of  Koelreuteria

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Conifers (Pinales)

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Platanus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Populus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of  Prunus  with the exception of Prunus laurocerasus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Salix

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Tilia

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Ulmus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of

Wood of Juglans

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood of Pterocarya

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Wood (excluding wood which is bark-free)

Wood of Castanea excluding wood which is bark-free 

 EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Used Machinery

Machinery and vehicles which have been operated for agricultural or forestry purposes

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TOM Medium Risk

 

Group

Legislative Term

Country of origin

Parts of Plants, other than fruits and seeds*

Plants of Cryptocoryne

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Plants of Hygrophila

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Plants of Vallisneria

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Prunus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Solanum lycopersicum 

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Solanum melongena

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Zea mays

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Cut trees/branches of Conifers (Pinales) under 3m

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Cut Flowers

Orchidaceae

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Dendranthema

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Dianthus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Gypsophila

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Solidago

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Seeds

Prunus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Rubus

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

Zea mays

EU Member States, Liechtenstein and Switzerland

 

TOM Low Risk**

Group
Any plants or plant products from the EU not mentioned in or excluded from the high or medium risk categories, are low-risk. Further risk assessments is ongoing and any changes to these TOM risk categories from the EU will not take place before April 2024 and we will communicate with traders, well in advance of any changes to commodity categorisation.

 

* ‘plants’ means living plants and the following living parts of plants: (a) seeds, in the botanical sense, other than those not intended for planting; (b) fruits, in the botanical sense; (c) vegetables; (d) tubers, corms, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, rootstocks, stolons; (e) shoots, stems, runners; (f) cut flowers; (g) branches with or without foliage; (h) cut trees retaining foliage; (i) leaves, foliage; (j) plant tissue cultures, including cell cultures, germplasm, meristems, chimaeric clones, micro-propagated material; (k) live pollen and spores; (l) buds, budwood, cuttings, scions, grafts

** some goods in the low-risk section are still pending further risk assessment