The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

17.  In regulation 2—

(a) in paragraph (2)—

(i) after the definition of “approved basic material”, insert—

““approved non-EU third countries” means the countries and territories listed in Part 1A of Schedule 13;”;

(ii) after the definition of “collecting”, insert—

““the Commissioners” has the same meaning given in the GB Regulations;”;

(iii) omit the definition of “Council Decision 2008/971/EC”;

(iv) omit the definition of “EC classification”;

(v) omit the definition of “EU-approved third countries”;

(vi) in the definition of “genetically modified organism”, for the words from “Article 2(1)” to the end, substitute “Article 3 of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1);

(vii) after the definition of “genetically modified organism”, insert—

““the GB Regulations” means the Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002(2);”;

(viii) in the definition of “Master Certificate”—

(aa) in paragraph (b), for “official body for Great Britain” to the end, substitute “the Commissioners in accordance with regulation 13 of the GB Regulations”;

(bb) in paragraph (d), for “ EU-approved”, substitute “approved non-EU”, and for the words from “a relevant” to the end, substitute “the Commissioners in accordance with the GB Regulations”;

(ix) in paragraph (e), for “an official body of a member State”, substitute “by a permitted third country authority”;

(x) omit the definition of “the Mediterranean climatic region”;

(xi) in the definition of “official body”—

(aa) omit paragraph (b);

(bb) in paragraph (c), after “in relation to”, insert “an approved non-EU third country or”;

(xii) omit the definition of “plant passport”;

(xiii) in the definition of “region of provenance”, for “in accordance with Article 9 of the Directive by another official body”, substitute “pursuant to regulation 5 of the GB Regulations by the Commissioners;

(xiv) for the definition of “third countries”, substitute—

““third country” means a country or territory outside the United Kingdom;”;

(b) omit paragraphs (4A) to (6).

(1)

S.I. 1991 No.1714 (N.I.19).

(2)

S.I. 2002 No. 3026.