The Cereal Seeds Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Overseas tested officially certified basic seed of a component of a listed hybrid variety

25.—(1) In these Regulations “ overseas tested officially certified basic seed of a component of a listed hybrid variety” means basic seed to which sub-paragraph (2) or (3) applies.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to basic seed of a component of a listed hybrid variety—

(a) that has been harvested from a crop produced in a member State (including the United Kingdom) for which a field inspection report was issued by or on behalf of the competent seed certification authority in the member State stating that the crop has been found to satisfy the relevant Directive crop conditions for basic seed;

(b) for which a seed test report has been issued—

(i) by or on behalf of the competent seed certification authority in the member State, or in a member State, other than the United Kingdom, into which the seed was subsequently imported, or

(ii) by a licensed EC seed testing station in either of the member States referred to in sub-paragraph (i), stating that the seed has been found to satisfy the relevant Directive seed conditions for basic seed;

(c) that has been imported into the United Kingdom as a component of a hybrid variety that was unlisted at the time when the seed was imported into the United Kingdom but has since been listed, and

(d) that is accompanied by—

(i) an Annex V(C) document relating to the seed issued by or on behalf of the competent seed certification authority in the member State referred to in sub-paragraph (a), and

(ii) the seed test report referred to in sub-paragraph (b).

(3) This sub-paragraph applies to basic seed of a component of a listed hybrid variety—

(a) that complies with the requirements of sub-paragraph 24(2)(a) to (d), and

(b) that was imported into the United Kingdom as basic seed of a component of a hybrid variety that was unlisted at the time when the seed was imported into the United Kingdom but has since been listed.