PART 4Amendment of the Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

11.  In regulation 5—

(a)in paragraph (3), for “For the purposes of Articles 14 and 15(2) of Commission Directive 2008/62/EC”, substitute “Where the quantities laid down in Article 14 of Commission Directive 2008/62/EC would otherwise be likely to be exceeded”;

(b)after paragraph (5), insert—

(6) For the purposes of paragraph (3), Article 14 of Commission Directive 2008/62/EC is to be read as if—

(a)in the first paragraph, in the first sentence—

(i)the words “Each Member State shall ensure that”, were omitted;

(ii)for the words “does not exceed”, there were substituted “may not exceed”;

(iii)for “that member State”, there were substituted “United Kingdom”;

(b)in the second paragraph—

(i)in the first sentence, for the reference to “each Member State”, there were substituted “the United Kingdom”;

(ii)for the references to “the Member State”, in both places, there were substituted “the United Kingdom”.