PART 4Consequential amendments, savings, transitional provisions and revocations

Amendment of the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011I126

1

The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 10—

a

for paragraph (1) substitute—

1

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—

4

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.