The Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2006

PART I REGISTRATION: MATTERS TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT

1.  The premises that are available to the applicant.

2.  The machinery, equipment and facilities that are available to the applicant.

3.  The personnel that are available to the applicant.

4.  Where the applicant is a body corporate or a partnership, the person who is to be the responsible person within the organisation.

5.  Where the activities carried out by the applicant include the preparation of seed mixtures to which the Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005 apply(1), the person who has direct responsibility for the mixing operations.

6.  Whether the procedures employed by the applicant in carrying out mixing operations in relation to seed mixtures to which the Fodder Plant Seed (Sco tland) Regulations 2005 apply are sufficient to ensure that mixed or blended seed lots are as homogeneous as is practicable.

7.  Any previous revocation of a registration held by the applicant–

(a) under the Seeds (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement Regulations) 1985(2);

(b) under these Regulations; or

(c) granted by the Secretary of State, the National Assembly for Wales or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development,

and the circumstances leading to the suspension or revocation.

8.  Any circumstances which led to the applicant, the person who has direct responsibility for the mixing operations in relation to seed mixtures to which the Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005 apply or, in the case of a body corporate or partnership, the responsible person, being convicted of an offence under section 16(7) of the Act.

(1)

S.S.I. 2005/329 as amended by regulation 44 of these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1985/980 as amended by S.I. 1987/1098, 1990/611 and 1993/2530.