SCHEDULE 1INTERPRETATION

PART IV

UK officially certified commercial seed

58.

(1)

In these Regulations “UK officially certified commercial seed” means seed to which paragraph (2) or (3) applies.

(2)

This paragraph applies to seed officially certified as commercial seed by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

(3)

This paragraph applies to commercial seed —

(a)

that satisfies the conditions laid down in Parts II and IV of Schedule 4 for commercial seed, and

(b)

for which a seed test report has been issued stating that it has been found by an official UK seed test or by a UK seed test carried out under official supervision (in either case whenever carried out) to satisfy the conditions laid down in Part II of Schedule 4 for commercial seed,

other than seed to which paragraph (2) applies and seed for which an application for official certification has been made to the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that has not been finally determined.