PART IIIU.K.Collection and Production of Forest Reproductive Material

Collection of forest reproductive materialU.K.

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), any person proposing to collect, or cause to be collected, forest reproductive material for the purpose of marketing or for use in the production of forest reproductive material which is to be marketed shall notify [F1the appropriate authority] in writing at least 14 days before the proposed collection, providing the following particulars and documentation—

(a)his name, address and contact details;

(b)the place of collection;

(c)the unique [F2National Register] reference or references allocated to the approved basic material from which the forest reproductive material is to be collected, or, in the case of forest reproductive material of the category “source-identified”, the region of provenance; and

(d)the proposed date, time and anticipated duration of the collection;

and shall afford [F1the appropriate authority] or persons acting on [F3the appropriate authority's] behalf such reasonable facilities as they may require to observe the collection so notified.

(2) Regulation 27(2) and (3) shall apply when [F1the appropriate authority] or other persons on their behalf attend to observe a collection as provided for in paragraph (1) as if the attendance were an inspection carried out under regulation 27(1).

(3) This regulation shall not apply to the extraction of seed from cones or fruits.

[F4(4) In this regulation and regulations 13 and 14, “the appropriate authority” means—

(a)the Welsh Ministers, in relation to the collection, production or marketing of forest reproductive material in Wales;

[F5(b)the Scottish Ministers, in relation to the collection, production or marketing of forest reproductive material in Scotland,

(c)the Commissioners, in relation to the collection, production or marketing of forest reproductive material in England.]]

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