The additional declaration: the standard wording, and what each destination requires Kenya to write

What the field is for

The additional declaration carries the specific phytosanitary information the importing country requires, beyond the certifying statement. ISPM 12 says such declarations should be concise, should not repeat the certifying statement, should not describe treatments — those go in the treatment section — and, where the importing country allows alternative measures, should say which one was applied. It also asks importing countries to use the standard's own model wording where they can. Every field of the certificate, and what makes one invalid →

The twelve model statements

ISPM 12's Appendix 2 recommends the following wording for additional declarations, with the pest, area or programme filled in. They are examples, not the only statements a country may require.

Source: ISPM 12, Phytosanitary certificates, adopted 2022, Appendix 2, read 26 September 2026. Where the statement applies only to part of a consignment, that may be specified; a buffer zone may be added to the area statements.

For Kenyan cut flowers, statements 5, 6 and 10 are the ones that matter, because they are the shapes the European rose requirement takes.

Roses into the European Union and Great Britain: one of four routes

Cut roses from the African continent must carry an official statement under one of four routes, and the certificate must say which. The routes, as the two near-identical regulations set them:

• Route (a) — the country of origin is recognised as free of the false codling moth. A statement of country freedom.
• Route (b) — the roses come from a pest free area, named on the certificate under place of origin.
• Route (c) — the roses come from a pest free place of production, with the place-of-production codes on the certificate.
• Route (d) — the roses come from a site approved by the Kenyan authority, with a systems approach or a treatment, and the production-site codes on the certificate.

Under routes (c) and (d) there are codes on the certificate; under (d) there is either a named treatment or a statement that a systems approach was used; under (b) there is a named area. A certificate that says "free from pests" and nothing more does not meet the requirement. The requirement applies to Rosa and to no other genus Kenya exports. The requirement, the routes and the codes in full →

The border's record on this field. Ten of the twenty-three Kenyan cut-flower interceptions Great Britain recorded in 2026 to date were an additional declaration missing, inadequate or invalid. The Netherlands refuses a consignment whose additional declaration does not reference the relevant EU position, before anything is opened. The causes, ranked →

Carnations, chrysanthemums and gypsophila: the leaf-miner statement, read separately for each lane

The European Union. Annex VII point 28 of the Union's plant health implementing regulation names cut flowers of Chrysanthemum, Dianthus, Gypsophila and Solidago. From third countries they must carry an official statement that they originate in a country recognised as being free from Liriomyza sativae and Nemorimyza maculosa in accordance with the relevant international standards, or that immediately prior to export they were officially inspected and found free from them. Read in the consolidated text of 6 July 2026.

Great Britain. Annex 7 Part A entry 39 of the retained regulation, as it applies in Great Britain, names the same four genera for any third country. It requires an official statement that they originate in a country known to be free from the same two leaf miners in accordance with the measures specified in ISPM 4, or that immediately prior to export they were officially inspected and found free from them. Read on legislation.gov.uk in the text at 25 September 2026. The two instruments are worded differently and set the same two routes; each is cited for its own lane.

Genus by genus, for the flowers this site covers:

Each cell was read in its own instrument on 26 September 2026. "No entry" is what the annex says and nothing more: the certificate itself is still required, and the Union lists Hypericum cut flowers among those that need one. The only other cut-flower entries in either annex are for orchids. The flower pages →

Australia: the treatment is described, and BICON sets the declaration

Australia requires the certificate to describe the devitalisation treatment — the glyphosate concentration, the duration and the dipping method — and the department states that the required additional declarations are set out in BICON, its import conditions database, for the case that applies. Under ISPM 12 the treatment itself belongs in the certificate's treatment section rather than the additional declaration; what BICON asks to be written in the declaration field is read from the case on the day of shipment. The doses by genus, and the certificate wording →

Norway: the field, and where it goes

Norway's plant health regulation requires a certificate for cut roses, carnations, gerbera, chrysanthemums, gypsophila and pelargonium, and Mattilsynet's import guide tells importers that any special requirement met is to be stated as an additional declaration on the certificate — in the "Additional declarations" field on a paper certificate, and in the corresponding field on a digital one. Which special requirements attach to a Kenyan consignment of each genus is a matter of the regulation's annexes of pests and requirements, which this site has not read genus by genus for a Kenyan origin. Norway's certificate rules and the importer's own control →

Japan and the United States: where the field is empty for Kenya

Japan. The Plant Protection Station's database, queried for Kenya and each of roses, gypsophila, carnations, chrysanthemums, alstroemeria and hypericum, returned each under goods importable on ordinary inspection and none under goods requiring quarantine measures in the exporting country with an addition to the certificate. For those six genera, on the day queried, the field carries no Japanese requirement. Japan →

United States. The cut-flower subpart requires an additional declaration — that the place of production and the consignment were inspected and found free of chrysanthemum white rust — only for chrysanthemum white rust hosts from the regions it lists, and Kenya is not among them. Whether the commodity-specific ACIR entry adds a declaration is the document this site could not open. The United States →

Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Union: a field the cut-flower table leaves empty

The Union's quarantine requirements ask for a free-area statement in the additional declaration only where they provide for one, and the table for cut flowers provides for none. It requires fresh cut flowers to be free from a list of named pests, and chrysanthemums from two named diseases besides, without a free-area condition; the 2019 revision removed the one it had. What the certificate must support is freedom from those pests. Kazakhstan, and the list →

What to check, in one line each

• Roses to Europe: which route, and are the codes or the area on the certificate?
• Carnations, chrysanthemums and gypsophila to the Union or Great Britain: is the leaf-miner statement on the certificate, under the route the certificate names? Other genera: what does KEPHIS say the destination's list requires?
• Australia: what does the BICON case ask for in the declaration field, and is the treatment described in the treatment section?
• Norway: is any special requirement stated in the declarations field, in the right field?
• Kazakhstan: no statement is called for by the cut-flower table; is every carton labelled as the Union requires?
• Japan and the United States: nothing for the six genera on the sources read, and the ACIR entry still to be opened.