The Animal Health, Seed Potatoes and Food (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

The Seed Potatoes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016

13.  In regulation 7—

(a) for paragraph (3), substitute—

“(3) The Department shall not authorise marketing—

(a) of a quantity of seed potatoes in excess of 0.1% of the annual amount of seed potatoes used in the United Kingdom, except that, if such quantity is not sufficient to sow 10 hectares, the quantity needed for such an area may be authorised;

(b) of seed potatoes which contain any genetically modified material unless—

(i) an authorisation is in force under—

(aa) Regulation 1829/2003 or Part C of Directive 2001/18/EC, where that authorisation was granted before exit day;

(bb) Regulation 1829/2003 (on genetically modified food and feed); or

(ii) a consent has been granted under

(aa) Article 8(1) of the Genetically Modified Organisms (Northern Ireland) Order 1991;

(bb) section 111(1) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.”;

(b) in paragraph (6)(b), after “the National List or”, insert “, before the end of the period of one year beginning with the day after the day on which exit day falls,”;

(c) in paragraph (8)(b), for “member States”, substitute “countries”.