SCHEDULE 2Certification requirements
PART 3 Fodder plants
CHAPTER 1Basic standards
Crop and seed requirements
28.
(1)
Crop inspections by official or licensed crop inspectors must be carried out in accordance with Article 2(3)(A) F1(a) to (d) of, and Annex I to, Council Directive 66/401/EEC on the marketing of fodder plant seed M1, and the crop must satisfy the conditions in that Annex.
F2(1A)
For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), Council Directive 66/401/EEC is to be read as if—
(a)
in Article 2(3)(A)(a)(iii), for “officially licensed by the seed certification authority of the Member State concerned” there were substituted “
licensed by the Welsh Ministers
”
;
(b)
in Annex 1, in paragraph 4, in the second sub-paragraph, the words from “Upon” to the end were omitted.
(2)
The seed produced by the crop must be sampled in accordance with Annex III to that Directive, and must satisfy the conditions in Annex II to that Directive.
F3(3)
The crop and the seed produced by the crop must be practically free from any pests which reduce the usefulness and quality of the seed.