The Seeds (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Regulations 5(2) and 6

SCHEDULE 1 REGISTERED SEED INDUSTRY PERSONS

PART 1 Registration: matters that may be taken into account

1.  The premises that are available to the applicant.

2.  The machinery, equipment and facilities that are available to the applicant.

3.  In relation to seed mixtures intended for use as fodder plants, the appropriateness of the procedures employed by the applicant in carrying out mixing operations.

4.  The personnel and services that are available to the applicant.

5.  Where the applicant is a corporate body or a partnership, the individual who is nominated as the point of contact (“the nominated contact”) within the organisation for all communications relating to compliance with the Seed Marketing Regulations and with these Regulations.

6.  Where the activities carried out by the applicant include the preparation of seed mixtures intended for use as fodder plants, the individual who has direct responsibility for the mixing operations.

PART 2 Conditions which may be imposed on a registered person

7.  In the case of a company, to notify the Department within 21 days of any change of the company’s name or the address of its registered office or any premises being used by it for the purpose of carrying on any seed industry activity.

8.  In the case of a registered person other than a company, to notify the Department within 21 days of any change of address of, or of premises being used by, that person for the purpose of the carrying on any seed industry activity.

9.  In the case of a corporate body or a partnership, to notify the Department within 21 days of any change regarding the nominated contact.

10.  In the case of the preparation of seed mixtures intended for use as fodder plants, to notify the Department within 21 days of any change regarding the person with direct responsibility for the mixing operation.

11.  To keep such records as the Department may require of his transactions in seeds and of the treatment, testing and other operations undertaken by him or on his behalf in relation to any seeds or their disposal including records relating to—

(a) seed crops;

(b) the date on which official labels are used (by reference to the unique label number) and the seed lots for which they are used;

(c) in the case of seed intended for marketing, the number and weight of seed lots processed and the date on which they are processed by species, category and level;

(d) the date on which official samples are taken from seed lots and the identity of the authorised officer or licensed seed sampler;

(e) the date on which official samples are despatched to a LSTS for testing;

(f) in the case of a seed lot that is officially certified for early movement, the date on which the interim seed test report is issued, the date of which the seed test report is issued and, in a case where the official germination test shows that the seed fails to meet the appropriate germination standard for seed of that species, the date on which the seller notifies the purchaser of the seed the position;

(g) the date on which and from whom he buys seed and the date on which and to whom he sells it (by crop identity number or seed lot reference number) and the weight of the seed bought or sold; and

(h) in the case of any seed which he treats chemically, the date on which the seed is so treated and details of the treatment applied.

12.  To keep a register of seed mixtures intended for use as fodder plants.

13.  To permit, at any reasonable time, an authorised officer to inspect and take copies of the records specified in paragraph 11 and of the register specified in paragraph 12.

14.  To permit, at any reasonable time, an authorised officer to inspect the premises, machinery, equipment and facilities used by or available to the registered person for the carrying on of the seed industry activity in respect of which that person is registered.

15.  To give the Department such other information as the Department may reasonably require in connection with the seed industry activity in respect of which the registered person is registered.