Find permits, licences, and approvals
Are you planning to import, export or conduct activities with food, plants or animals in Canada? You or the business or institution you represent may need a permit, licence or approval.
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Are your goods or services most related to Plants, Food, or Animals?
- + Plants
What is your request most related to?
- + Importing into Canada
What plant products are you importing?
- + Plants for planting
What type of plants?
- + Trees
Are you importing fruit trees?
- Yes I'm importing fruit trees
- No I'm importing other types of trees
- Greenhouse plants, ornamental shrubs and growing media
- Grapevines, vines and berries
- + Trees
- + Seed
What type of seed?
- Seed
- Seed potato
- Plant parts and fresh branches
- + Forest products and wood packaging
What type of forest products?
- Sawn wood, bark, logs, lumber and pulpwood
- Wood and bark chips
- Firewood
- Wood packaging and dunnage
- Christmas trees
- Handicrafts or decorative products
- + Fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts
What type of fresh fruits, vegetables, or nuts?
- Fresh fruits and nuts for consumption
- Fresh vegetables, including root crops, for consumption
- + Grains and field crops
Are your grains and field crops for planting?
- Yes my grains and field crops are for planting
- No my grains and field crops are not for planting
- Potatoes, roots, tubers and ground crops
- Soil, live insects, invasive species, plant pests, and vehicles, equipment or machinery
- + Plants for planting
- + Move products within Canada
What plant products are you moving?
- + Forest products and wood packaging
What type of forest products?
- Sawn wood, bark, logs, lumber and pulpwood
- Firewood
- Wood and bark chips
- Wood packaging and dunnage
- Christmas trees
- Handicrafts or decorative products
- + Plants for planting
What type of plants?
- + Trees
Are you moving fruit trees?
- Yes I'm moving fruit trees
- No I'm moving other types of trees
- Greenhouse plants, ornamental shrubs and growing media
- Grapevines, vines and berries
- + Trees
- + Seed
What type of seed?
- Seed
- Seed potato
- Plant parts and fresh branches
- + Fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts
What type of fresh fruits, vegetables or nuts?
- Fresh fruits and nuts for consumption
- Fresh vegetables, including root crops, for consumption
- Grains and field crops
- + Potatoes, roots, tubers and ground crops
What type of potatoes?
- Potatoes for consumption
- Seed potato for propagation
- Soil, live insects, invasive species, plant pests, and vehicles, equipment or machinery
- + Forest products and wood packaging
- + Join a certification program
What products or facilities are most related to the certification program you'd like to join?
- Forest products and wood packaging
- Grains and field crops
- Greenhouse and nursery
- + Potatoes
What type of potatoes?
- Potatoes for consumption
- Seed potato for propagation
- Plants, plant parts or horticulture
- Plant pests and soil
- + Seed
What type of seed?
- Seed
- Seed potato
- + Alternate Service Provider
What products are related to the accreditation or service?
- Forestry and wood products
- + Seed
What type of seed?
- Seed
- Seed potato
- Grains and field crops
- Potatoes
- + Product registration and research
What type of permission is your request most related to?
- Plants with novel traits
- Register your crop variety
- Plant Breeders' Rights
- Fertilizer
- + Export from Canada
What plant products are you exporting?
- Forest products and wood packaging
- Grains and field crops
- + Plants for planting
What type of plants?
- Trees
- Greenhouse plants, ornamental shrubs and growing media
- Grapevines, vines and berries
- Fertilizer
- Potatoes, tubers and ground crops
- + Seed
What type of seed?
- Seed
- Seed potato
- + Importing into Canada
- + Food
What is your request most related to?
- Safe Food Licence
- An exemption to the Safe Food for Canadians regulations (SFCR)
- Export from Canada
- Join a certification program
- Importing into Canada
- + Animals
What is your request most related to?
- Join a certification program
- Livestock feeds
- Veterinary biologics
- + Move products within Canada
What type of animal or animal product are you moving?
- Terrestrial (land-based) animals and products
- Aquatic animals and products
- Licence or permit to operate in Canada
- + Export from Canada
What type of animal or animal product are you exporting?
- Terrestrial (land-based) animals and products
- Aquatic animals and products
- + Importing into Canada
What type of animal or animal product are you importing?
- Terrestial (land-based) animals, products and germplasm
- Aquatic animals and products
- Semen or embryos
- Pathogens
- Live insects and micro-organisms
- Veterinary biologics
- Livestock feeds
- Pets
- Become an accredited veterinarian or laboratory
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