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PART 3AMENDMENTS TO THE OIL AND FIBRE PLANT SEED (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2004

Marketing of seed

14.  In regulation 6 (marketing of seed)–

(a)in paragraph (1)(b)(ii) for “Pre-basic Seed, fully certified Basic Seed or Seed of a Certified Generation” substitute “Pre-basic Seed, fully certified Basic Seed, Seed of a Certified Generation or seed of a Conservation Variety”.

(b)for paragraph (2) substitute–

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the marketing of seed which has not yet been fully certified if–

(a)the seed is marketed for processing;

(b)the identity of the seed is ensured; and

(i)the seed has been harvested from a crop which has been found by an official field inspection to satisfy the conditions specified in Part I of Schedule 4 or Annex I (crop conditions) of the Oil and Fibre Plant Seed Directive for the relevant category of seed; or

(ii)the seed of a Conservation Variety has been harvested from a crop which has been found to satisfy the conditions specified in Part III of Schedule 4A.;

(c)in paragraph (3)–

(i)delete “either”;

(ii)after “Schedule 2,” insert “the examination referred to in paragraph 2(b) of Part I of Schedule 4A”(1).

(1)

Schedule 4A is inserted by regulation 20 of, and Schedule 2 to, those Regulations.