The Seed (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2010

Amendment of Schedule 4 (requirements for pre-basic seed, basic seed, certified seed, certified seed of the first generation, certified seed of the second generation and commercial seed)

8.  In Schedule 4—

(a) in paragraph 13 (standards for germination, analytical purity and content of seed of other plant species), in table II—

(i) before the entry for ‘Sheep’s fescue’, insert—

“Fine leaved sheep’s fescue	75	n/a	85	0.3	2.0
Hard fescue	75	n/a	85	0.3	2.0”

(ii) in column (4) of the entries for ‘Narrow-leaved lupin (Blue lupin)’, ‘White lupin’ and ‘Yellow lupin’, for “98” substitute “98 (c)”; and

(b) in paragraph 14 (standards regarding content of seeds of other plant species)—

(i) in each of tables I and II, in the heading of columns (3) and (4), for “A.ludoviciana and A.sterilis”, substitute “Avena sterilis”;

(ii) in table I, in the heading of columns (11), (12) and (13) and in table II, in the heading of columns (9) and (10), for “Agropyron repens”, substitute “Elytrigia repens”;

(iii) in table II, before the entry for ‘Sheep’s fescue’, insert the entries in Schedule 4 to these Regulations; and

(iv) at table II, in footnote (k) to the table, for “(bitter varieties) the presence of seeds of another colour shall not exceed 4.0%”, substitute “the presence of seeds of another colour shall not exceed 4.0% in bitter lupins and 2.0% in other lupins”.