PART 5Amendment of the Seed Marketing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

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In regulation 8(2)—

a

for sub-paragraph (b), substitute—

b

seed which has been imported from F1a European Single Market State and—

i

is of a variety listed in the National List or the Common Catalogue F2except the vegetable seed of the species listed in Council Directive 2002/55/EC produced in Switzerland;

ii

is officially certified, in compliance with the requirements set out in EU law, including those measures referred to in regulation 3(2)(a) to (e) and (i); and

iii

has been imported into Northern Ireland before the end of the period of two years beginning with the day after the day on which exit day falls.

b

in sub-paragraph (c), from “a third country”, to “seed produced in third countries)”, substitute “ a country with equivalence ”.