Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products (c. 1610)

Article 1 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

1.

‘plant protection products’: active substances and preparations containing one or more active substances, put up in the form in which they are supplied to the user, intended to:

(a)

protect plants or plant products against all harmful organisms or prevent the action of such organisms, in so far as such substances or preparations are not otherwise defined below;

(b)

influence the life processes of plants, other than as a nutrient (e.g. plant growth regulators);

(c)

preserve plant products, in so far as such substances or products are not subject to special Council or Commission provisions on preservatives;

(d)

destroy undesirable plants; or

(e)

destroy parts of plants, check or prevent undesirable growth of plants;

2.

‘substances’: chemical elements and their compounds, as they occur naturally or by manufacture, including any impurity inevitably resulting from the manufacturing process;

3.

‘active substances’: substances or micro-organisms including viruses, having general or specific action:

(a)

against harmful organisms; or

(b)

on plants, parts of plants or plant products;

4.

‘preparations’: mixtures or solutions composed of two or more substances, of which at least one is an active substance, intended for use as plant protection products;

5.

‘plants’: live plants and live parts of plants, including fresh fruit and seeds;

6.

‘plant products’: products in the unprocessed state or having undergone only simple preparation such as milling, drying or pressing, derived from plants, but excluding plants themselves as defined in point 5;

7.

‘harmful organisms’: pests of plants or plant products belonging to the animal or plant kingdom, and also viruses, bacteria and mycoplasmas and other pathogens;

8.

‘product’: the active substance as defined in point 3 or combination of active substances of a plant protection product;

9.

‘basic patent’: a patent which protects a product as defined in point 8 as such, a preparation as defined in point 4, a process to obtain a product or an application of a product, and which is designated by its holder for the purpose of the procedure for grant of a certificate;

10.

‘certificate’: the supplementary protection certificate.