SCHEDULE 4 SREQUIREMENTS FOR PRE-BASIC SEED, BASIC SEED, CERTIFIED SEED, CERTIFIED SEED OF THE FIRST GENERATION, CERTIFIED SEED OF THE SECOND GENERATION AND COMMERCIAL SEED

PART I SCONDITIONS RELATING TO CROPS FROM WHICH SEED OTHER THAN COMMERCIAL SEED IS OBTAINED

[F1 Pests in the crop S

4.— (1) The crop must be practically free from any pests which reduce the usefulness and quality of the seed.

(2) The crop must also comply with the requirements concerning [F2 GB] quarantine pests, [F3 PFA] quarantine pests and RNQPs provided for in implementing acts adopted pursuant to the EU Plant Health Regulation, as well as the measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1) of that Regulation.

(3) The presence of RNQPs on the crop and the respective categories must comply with the requirements set out in the following table—

RNQPs or symptoms caused by RNQPs	Plants for planting (genus or species)	Thresholds for the production of pre-basic seed	Thresholds for the production of basic seed	Thresholds for the production of certified seed
Clavibacter michiganensis ssp. insidiosus (McCulloch 1925) Davis et al. [CORBIN]	Lucerne	0%	0%	0%
Ditylenchus dipsaci (Kuehn) Filipjev [DITYDI]	Lucerne	0%	0%	0%]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 4 para. 4 substituted (1.7.2020) by The Seed and Plant Material (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/165), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(a)

F2 Word in sch. 4 para. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.S.I. 2019/59, reg. 14(24)(a)(ii)(aa) (as substituted by The Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(1)(b), 15(21)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Word in sch. 4 para. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.S.I. 2019/59, reg. 14(24)(a)(ii)(bb) (as substituted by The Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(1)(b), 15(21)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)