The Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Propagating Material and Fodder Plant Seed (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Council Decision 2003/17/EC

6.—(1) Council Decision 2003/17/EC on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Article A1(1), in the definition of “the Seeds Marketing Regulations”, omit point (d).

(3) In Articles 1 and 2, omit the words from “and, in relation to Northern Ireland” to “fodder plant seed only”.

(4) In Article 3—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) for “the United Kingdom”, in the first place where it occurs, substitute “Great Britain”;

(ii) for “the United Kingdom”, in the second place where it occurs, substitute “England, Wales or Scotland, as the case may be,”;

(b) in paragraph (2)—

(i) in the words before point (a)—

(aa) for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”;

(bb) omit “, in relation to fodder seed, “UK rules and standards”, and in relation to all other seed”;

(ii) in point (a), for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”.

(5) In Annex 2, in paragraph B—

(a) in point 3.1, omit “in relation to fodder seed “UK rules and standards, and in relation to all other seed”;

(b) in point 3.2, omit “, in relation to fodder seed, the law of the United Kingdom, and in relation to seed other than fodder seed,”;

(c) in point 5—

(i) in the first subparagraph, for “the United Kingdom”, in the first place where it occurs, substitute “Great Britain or Northern Ireland”;

(ii) for the second subparagraph substitute—

“In the case of basic seed of other varieties, the seed for the preceding generations shall have been produced under the responsibility of the persons responsible for the maintenance of the variety—

• referred to in the GB Variety Lists pursuant to regulation 3 of the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 2001(2) or the NI Variety Lists pursuant to regulation 3 of the Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020(3); or

• in a country which has been granted equivalence under Council Decision 2005/834/EC on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries; or

• in a country granted equivalence.”;

(d) in point 6, in the first indent, for “the United Kingdom” substitute “England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland”.

(1)

EUDN 2003/17, as amended by S.I. 2019/162.

(2)

S.I. 2001/3510, amended by S.I. 2004/2949; 2007/1871; 2009/1273; 2011/464; 2016/106 (W 52); 2018/942; 2019/162; 2020/1294; and S.S. I. 2015/395.

(3)

S.R. 2020/302.