Agent services - advisory

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Date published: 30 March, 2015

Date superseded: 2 November, 2016

This is available for landowners who require agent services with relation to dealing with Phytophthora ramorum. Infected sites within the management zone are not eligible for this capital item.

There is a one-off payment depending on the type of service you require. The three types of services available from suitably qualified agents are:

  • advisory – advice and information only
  • compliance – advisory visit and organising work to meet minimum requirement of Statutory Plant Health Notice
  • harvesting and marketing – advisory visit and full service to achieve Statutory Plant Health Notice requirements and organisation and supervision of extraction, transport and sale timber in accordance with Health and Safety and road haulage. Timber processing licence procedures

Please ensure you abide by conditions set out in the Forestry Grant Scheme claim form and guidance.

Phytophthora ramorum in Scotland

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