The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

PART 4 Treated seeds

Treated seeds

14.—(1) Article 49(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 applies to seeds to which sub-paragraph (2) applies as it applies to seeds to which Article 49(1) applies.

(2) This sub-paragraph applies to—

(a) seeds treated before exit day with a plant protection product which at the time of treatment was authorised for that use in at least one member State or EEA state but not the United Kingdom;

(b) seeds treated on or after exit day with a plant protection product which immediately before exit day was authorised for that use in at least one member State or EEA state but not the United Kingdom.

(3) But sub-paragraph (2) does not apply to the extent that immediately before exit day the sale or use of such seeds was restricted or prohibited by measures adopted in the United Kingdom or by the European Commission in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before exit day (as adapted by the EEA agreement as it had effect immediately before exit day).

(4) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (3) cease to have effect in respect of seeds to which sub-paragraph (2) applies in relation to a constituent territory on the earliest of the following dates—

(a) the date on which the plant protection product used to treat the seeds is no longer authorised for that use in at least one member State or EEA state;

(b) 1st April 2022.

(5) In this paragraph, “EEA state” does not include the Principality of Liechtenstein.