The Seeds (Fees) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 17th March 2006, remove provision for prescribed fees for official examination of samples of seed to be paid to licensed seed testing stations instead of to the Scottish Ministers (regulation 3) as by virtue of these Regulations there are no longer any such prescribed fees.

These Regulations remove from Schedule 1 (matters arising under the Cereal Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005) and Schedule 3 (matters arising under the Oil and Fibre Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2004) to the Seeds (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 the prescribed fees shown in the following table (regulations 4 and 5)–

Matter	Fee
	£
Schedule 1 (matters arising under the Cereal Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005)
Fee for an official examination of seed for loose smut infection of wheat, durum wheat, spelt wheat and barley (per thousand embryos examined)	39.40
Fee for a tetrazolium seed viability test on certified seed of the first generation of Winter Wheat and Winter Barley	46.20
Schedule 3 (matters arising under the Oil and Fibre Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2004)
Fees for an official examination of seed of–
(i) sunflower for Botrytis spp	46.15
(ii) flax and linseed for–
(a) Alternaria spp	37.95
(b) Phoma exiqua var. linicola	37.95
(c) Colletotrichum lini	37.95
(d) Fusarium spp	37.95
(e) Botrytis spp	37.95
(iii) soya bean for Pseudomonas syringae pv. glycinea spp for–
(a) for one sub sample test	66.15
(b) for five sub sample tests	220.50
(iv) soya bean for Diaporthe phaselorum spp	41.35

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.