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6.—(1) Council Decision 2003/17/EC on equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries is amended as follows.
(2) Before Article 1 insert—
1. In this Decision, “the Seeds Marketing Regulations” means—
(a)in relation to England, the Seed Marketing Regulations 2011;
(b)in relation to Wales, the Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012;
(c)in relation to Scotland—
(i)in relation to vegetable seed, the Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993;
(ii)in relation to oil and fibre plant seed, the Oil and Fibre Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2004;
(iii)in relation to cereal seed, the Cereal Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005;
(iv)in relation to fodder plant seed, the Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005;
(v)in relation to beet seed, the Beet Seed (Scotland) (No 2) Regulations 2010;
(d)in relation to Northern Ireland, the Seed Marketing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016.”.
(3) In Articles 1 and 2—
(a)omit “third”;
(b)for “Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC and 2002/57/EC” substitute “ the Seeds Marketing Regulations ”.
(4) In Article 3—
(a)in paragraph 1—
(i)for “Community”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “ United Kingdom ”;
(ii)for “Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC and 2002/57/EC” substitute “ the Seeds Marketing Regulations ”;
(iii)omit the second paragraph.
(b)in paragraph 2—
(i)for “Community” substitute “ United Kingdom ”;
(ii)for “EC” substitute “ UK ”;
(iii)in point (a)—
(aa)for “Member States” substitute “ the United Kingdom ”;
(bb)for “third countries” substitute “ countries listed in Annex 1 ”;
(iv)in point (b)—
(aa)for “small EC” substitute “ beet, fodder or vegetable seed, small ”;
(bb)for “Directives 66/401/EEC, 2002/54/EC or 2002/55/EC” substitute “ the Seeds Marketing Regulations ”.
(5) Omit Article 7.
(6) In Annex 2—
(a)in paragraph A—
(i)in the heading, for “third countries” substitute “ countries listed in Annex 1 ”;
(ii)in point 3, in the first indent, omit “Member State or third”;
(b)in paragraph B—
(i)in the heading, for “third countries” substitute “ countries listed in Annex 1 ”;
(ii)in point 1, in the second subparagraph, for “Community rules” substitute “ the Seeds Marketing Regulations ”;
(iii)in point 2.1, for “laid down in” substitute “ specified by the Seeds Marketing Regulations and ”;
(iv)in point 3.1, in the first indent—
(aa)for “Community rules” substitute “ the Seeds Marketing Regulations ”;
(bb)for “EC” substitute “ UK ”;
(v)in point 3.2, for “Community law” substitute “ the law of the United Kingdom ”;
(vi)in point 3.5, for the words from “at least” to the end substitute “ English and may also be given in other languages ”;
(vii)in point 5—
(aa)in the first subparagraph, for “Community”, in both places where it occurs, substitute “ United Kingdom ”;
(bb)for the second subparagraph substitute—
“In the case of basic seed of other varieties, the seed of the preceding generations shall have been produced—
— under the responsibility of the persons responsible for the maintenance of the variety referred to in the United Kingdom National Lists pursuant to regulation 3 of the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 2001;
— in a country which has been granted equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties, under Council Decision 2005/834/EC; or
— in an EEA State or Switzerland, provided the seed of the preceding generations was produced before the end of the period of two years beginning with exit day.”;
(viii)in point 6—
(aa)in the first indent, for “Community,” substitute “ United Kingdom ”;
(bb)in the second indent, omit “third” and, at the end, insert “ or ”;
(cc)after the second indent, insert— “ — in an EEA State or Switzerland, provided the seed of the preceding generations was produced before the end of the period of two years beginning with exit day. ”.
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