The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Application for registration with an official description

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2.—(1) An application for registration of a variety with an official description must be made in writing to the Department in such form as the Department may require.

(2) An application must be accompanied by—

(a)the information required in a technical questionnaire at the time of the application or, where no technical questionnaire is available in relation to the relevant species, such information as the department may require;

(b)information on whether the variety is officially registered elsewhere in the UK, in another member State, or is the subject of an application for such a registration;

(c)a proposed denomination;

(d)such other information as the Department may require.

(e)where applicable, an application may be accompanied by details of an official description established by a responsible authority elsewhere in the United Kingdom or in another member State.

(f)where a growing trial is required, a sample of the material of the variety must be submitted on request.