PART 3AMENDMENT OF THE FODDER PLANT SEED (SCOTLAND) REGULATIONS 2005

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”.