Council Directive 2002/54/ECShow full title

A. Crop U.K.

1. The previous cropping of the field shall not have been incompatible with the production of seeds of Beta vulgaris of the variety of the crop, and the field shall be sufficiently free from such plants which are volunteers from previous cropping. U.K.

2. The crop shall have sufficient identity and purity of variety. U.K.

3. The seed producer shall submit all the multiplications of a given variety of seed for examination by the certification authority. U.K.

4. In the case of certified seed of all categories there shall be at least one field inspection, either official or under official supervision, and in the case of basic seed at least two official field inspections, one of stecklings and one of the seed-producing plants. U.K.

5. The cultural condition of the field and the stage of development of the crops shall be such as to permit identity and varietal purity to be adequately checked. U.K.

6. The minimum distances from neighbouring pollen sources shall be: U.K.

Crop		Minimum distance
1.	For the production of basic seed:
	— from any pollen sources of the genus Beta	1 000 m
2.	For the production of certified seed:
	(a) of sugar beet:
	— from any pollen sources of the genus Beta not included below	1 000 m
	— the intended pollinator or one of the intended pollinators being diploid, from tetraploid sugar beet pollen sources	600 m
	— the intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from diploid sugar beet pollen sources	600 m
	— from sugar beet pollen sources, the ploidy of which is unknown	600 m
	— the intended pollinator or one of the intended pollinators being diploid, from diploid sugar beet pollen sources	300 m
	— the intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from tetraploid sugar beet pollen sources	300 m
	— between two sugar beet seed production fields in which male sterility is not used	300 m
	(b) of fodder beet:
	— from any pollen sources of the genus Beta not included below	1 000 m
	— the intended pollinator or one of the pollinators being diploid, from tetraploid fodder beet pollen sources	600 m
	— the intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from diploid fodder beet pollen sources	600 m
	— from fodder beet pollen sources, the ploidy of which is unknown	600 m
	— the intended pollinator or one of the pollinators being diploid, from diploid fodder beet pollen sources	300 m
	— the intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from tetraploid fodder beet pollen sources	300 m
	— between two fodder beet seed production fields in which male sterility is not used	300 m

The above distances can be disregarded if there is sufficient protection from any undesirable foreign pollinator. No isolation is necessary between seed crops using the same pollinator.

The ploidy of both seed-bearing and pollen-shedding components of seed-producing crops is to be established by reference to the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species compiled under Directive 2002/53/EC, or the national catalogues of varieties established under that Directive. If this information is not included for any variety, the ploidy is to be regarded as unknown, and thus a minimum isolation distance of 600 metres is required.