Plant health reference
Check if your wood needs an EU plant passport, and see the pest zones by wood on a map.
745 records, 19 pests, pest zones in 16 countries
Compiled from public sources. Not official: the plant protection authority decides. Sources and data
The check cannot see the wood or the exact place it grew. The plant protection authority decides.
Plant passport: always
What to do
Two woods always need a passport. The rest depend on where the wood grew, where it goes and whether it has bark.
Juglans, Pterocarya
Passport for every move within the EU. Kiln drying does not count.
HT 56 °C, 40 min
Platanus
Passport for every move within the EU.
KD below 20 %
Castanea
No EU passport. With bark to Ireland, Sweden or Northern Ireland: PZ passport.
Debark, or KD
Pinus, Picea, Abies, Larix
Passport only from a pine wood nematode area: mainland Portugal, Madeira, parts of Spain and France. With bark to Ireland, Greece, Cyprus or Northern Ireland: PZ passport.
HT 56 °C, 30 min
Fraxinus, Chionanthus
Passport only within 100 km of an emerald ash borer area, or from an Asian longhorn beetle area.
Debark + 2.5 cm sapwood
Acer, Aesculus, Betula, Populus, Salix, Ulmus
Passport only from an Asian longhorn beetle area.
Debark + HT 56 °C, 30 min
Prunus
Passport only from a red-necked longhorn beetle area.
HT or irradiation
Quercus, Fagus, Olea
No EU plant passport for sawn wood.
No condition
The rules cover round wood, fuelwood, chips and sawn wood, slabs included (CN 4401, 4403, 4404, ex 4407). Profiled boards (4409) and furniture (9403) are outside them.
The final-user exemption covers only private buyers who buy in person, and never applies in protected zones (Article 81, Regulation (EU) 2016/2031).
Joiners, furniture makers, importers and traders are professional operators, never final users.
Red: wood from here needs treatment and a passport. Yellow: a protected zone for wood with bark. Green: the pest is officially absent.
One row per regulated pest: what it is, the rule for wood and where it is. Open a row for places and sources.
Thousand cankers disease Geosmithia morbida, Walnut twig beetle Pityophthorus juglandis · Walnut
Pest zones
Officially absent
Eradicated or lifted
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Ceratocystis platani · Plane
Pest zones
Officially absent
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Agrilus planipennis · Ash
Pest zones
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Anoplophora glabripennis · Ash, Maple, poplar, elm, birch, willow, horse chestnut
Pest zones
Eradicated or lifted
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Aromia bungii · Cherry and other Prunus
Pest zones
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Bursaphelenchus xylophilus · Conifers
Pest zones
Officially absent
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Cryphonectria parasitica · Chestnut
Protected zones
Eradicated or lifted
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Dendroctonus micans, Ips amitinus, Ips cembrae, Ips duplicatus, Ips sexdentatus, Ips typographus · Conifers
Protected zones
Anoplophora chinensis
Eradicated or lifted
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Two-lined chestnut borer Agrilus bilineatus, Bronze birch borer Agrilus anxius, Oak processionary moth Thaumetopoea processionea, Gremmeniella abietina · Chestnut, Conifers, Maple, poplar, elm, birch, willow, horse chestnut, Oak
Pest zones
Other records(outside the EU, not confirmed, or no rule for wood)
Place names, legal references and source titles are shown as published.
These places are still free of a pest found elsewhere in the EU. Wood with bark of the woods below needs a passport marked PZ to enter.
CyprusCY
GreeceGR
IrelandIE
Northern IrelandUK-NI
SwedenSE
Remove the bark and no PZ passport is needed. Wood with bark needs a PZ passport and must come from a pest-free area or be kiln-dried.
A physical label on each piece: the EU flag, the words “Plant Passport” and four elements, A to D, inside a border.
Botanical name
Species or genus, for example Juglans regia.
Operator
Member State code and the registration number of the operator who issued it.
Traceability code
The lot or piece. Mandatory for wood.
Origin
The country of origin.
Heat treatment (HT) and kiln drying (KD) are the two marks on regulated wood. Which one counts depends on the pest, and KD never replaces HT for walnut.
56 °C
through the whole profile, marked HT
< 20 %
moisture, dry mass basis, marked KD
2.5 cm
of outer sapwood removed with the bark, for ash
Bark-free means all bark removed, except ingrown bark around knots and bark pockets between growth rings.
The HT or KD mark goes on the wood or its wrapping. The kiln's treatment record shows how it was reached.
Yes. Every move of walnut (Juglans) and wingnut (Pterocarya) wood within the EU needs a plant passport, because of thousand cankers disease. Live-edge slabs also need heat treatment at 56 °C for 40 minutes, marked HT, unless the authority has declared the origin area free of the disease and its beetle.
No. Kiln drying is not an option for walnut. Only a declared pest-free origin, heat treatment at 56 °C for 40 continuous minutes marked HT, or squaring off the whole natural rounded surface lets walnut move, and the passport is still required.
Not for most of the EU. Only chestnut wood with bark sent to Ireland, Sweden or Northern Ireland needs a protected-zone passport (PZ), because of chestnut blight. Bark-free chestnut needs none.
Yes, the seller must supply one with regulated wood. The final-user exemption covers only private persons who buy in person. Online sales are not exempt, and the exemption never applies in protected zones.
Yes. Joiners, furniture makers, importers and timber traders are professional operators, never final users, so regulated wood sold to them travels with its passport.
No. Finished furniture (CN 9403) and profiled boards (4409) are outside the rule. The passport covers round wood, fuelwood, chips and sawn wood, slabs included (4401, 4403, 4404 and ex 4407).
Ireland, Greece, Cyprus and Northern Ireland, for one or more bark beetles of conifers (Dendroctonus micans and Ips species). Conifer wood with bark sent there needs a PZ passport. The register shows which beetle applies where.
Yes. It was officially confirmed in Slovakia (Trebišov and Michalovce districts) and Hungary (Beregsurány) in 2026, and is present in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Ash from within 100 km of a confirmed area needs bark and outer sapwood removed, or irradiation, and a passport.
No official declaration was found. The EPPO Global Database has no record for Bulgaria either way, and that is not a pest-free statement. Until the Bulgarian authority declares an area free, live-edge walnut from Bulgaria needs heat treatment and a passport to move within the EU.
No. The passport is a physical label with the elements A to D. A QR code may add to the traceability code, but there is no electronic plant passport in the EU yet.
The data was last reviewed on 23 October 2026. Demarcated areas change every year, so the sources are reviewed at least every quarter.
Compiled by KORENA from the regulations and public sources below. Every record links to its own source.
Not an official source. For a specific consignment, the competent plant protection authority decides.
Compiled by hand on 23 October 2026 from the consolidated regulations, EPPO and national sources, each record with a confidence level. Demarcated areas change every year, so the set is reviewed at least every quarter. Notes, legal basis and source titles are kept as published.
Licence: CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse with attribution to KORENA. The sources keep their own terms.
Cite as: KORENA, EU plant health pest zones for wood, reviewed 23 October 2026.
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