PART 4Consequential amendments, savings, transitional provisions and revocations
Amendment of the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011I126
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The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011 are amended as follows.
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In regulation 10—
a
for paragraph (1) substitute—
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A person must not place on the market or use in a constituent territory (“the relevant constituent territory”) seeds treated with a plant protection product, other than an appropriate plant protection product, or cause or permit another person to do so.
1A
Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to seeds which a competent authority must not prohibit in accordance with Article 49 as read with paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
b
in paragraph (3), for the words from “plant” to the end, substitute “
an appropriate plant protection product, or seeds which a competent authority must not prohibit in accordance with Article 49 as read with paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
”
;
c
after paragraph (3) insert—
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In this regulation, “appropriate plant protection product” means—
a
a plant protection product authorised in relation to the relevant constituent territory for use on such seeds, or
b
a plant protection product authorised in relation to another constituent territory for use on such seeds, where—
i
every active substance, low-risk active substance or candidate for substitution in that product is approved in relation to the relevant constituent territory, and
ii
every co-formulant in that product does not appear on the unacceptable co-formulants register in relation to the relevant constituent territory.