The Seed (Scotland) (Amendments for Conservation Varieties) Regulations 2009

Marketing of seed

24.  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

(c) 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 Fodder Plant Seed Directive for the relevant category of seed; or

(d) 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 30 of, and Schedule 3 to, these Regulations.