Skip to main content
Last reviewed:

Proposed price schedule and greenhouse booking policy

Your feedback wanted 

From 22 August until 24 October 2023, Biosecurity New Zealand invites your feedback on 3 proposed changes to the services provided by the Plant Health and Environment Laboratory.

Details of the proposed changes are in the documents. 

Proposed new pricing schedule for diagnostic testing [PDF, 206 KB]

Proposed new Level 3B post-entry quarantine greenhouse prices [PDF, 210 KB]

Proposed Level 3B post-entry quarantine greenhouse booking policy prioritisation policy [PDF, 433 KB]

We welcome your feedback on these proposed changes, which we will review and consider before finalising the proposals. 

Email your feedback or questions, along with your contact details, to PHELPricing@mpi.govt.nz

We must get your feedback by 24 October 2023.

Extra information published on 13 September 2023

To develop the proposed new Level 3B post-entry quarantine prices, Biosecurity New Zealand commissioned an analysis of market sustainability and price settings:

Post-entry quarantine helps make sure only healthy plants come to NZ

Some plant seeds and nursery stock coming into New Zealand are quarantined to make sure only healthy plants are released. Plants are inspected and tested at a post-entry quarantine (PEQ) facility.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is the only provider of Level 3B space in the country. The new PEQ facility will double MPI's current capacity for processing imports. The new PEQ greenhouses will provide additional space to meet the increase in plant germplasm imports requiring quarantine.

The new facility will add to the existing Level 3B space at our Auckland Plant Health and Environment Laboratory (PHEL). It's being built next to the site of the planned new PHEL space at the Mount Albert Research Centre.

Find out about the new Plant Health and Environment Laboratory

Timeline of the new PEQ

March 2022: Construction started.

October 2023: Construction expected to be completed.

April 2024: Expected opening.

The PEQ booking system

We're proposing a new booking and prioritisation policy and welcome your feedback until 24 October 2023. Details of the new policy and how to give feedback are at the top of this page. The new booking system is expected to start in December 2023.

What the facility will look like

Front building entrance

Front building entrance (Artist's impression)

Greenhouses at the back of the building

Greenhouses at the back of the building (Artist's impression)

Who to contact

If you have questions about our new PEQ facility, email PH&EC@mpi.govt.nz

MPI business units