The Marketing of Ornamental Plant Material Regulations 1995

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“Directive 93/49/EEC” means Commission Directive 93/49/EEC(1) setting out the schedule indicating the conditions to be met by ornamental plant propagating material and ornamental plants pursuant to Council Directive 91/682/EEC(2);

“inspector” means any person authorised by the Minister to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations;

“marketing” means the delivery, offer for sale, exposure for sale, sale and possession with a view to sale of plant material, and “market” and “marketed” shall be construed accordingly;

“the Minister” means, as respects England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, as respects Scotland or Wales, the Secretary of State;

“ornamental plant” means a plant, other than a pot plant, intended, after marketing, to be planted or replanted;

“plant material” means ornamental plants and seeds, parts of plants and all vegetative material intended for the propagation and production of ornamental plants;

“producer” means a supplier engaged in the production or reproduction of plant material;

“responsible official body” means, as respects England and Wales, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, as respects Scotland, the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department;

“supplier” means any person professionally engaged in the production, reproduction, preservation, treatment or marketing of plant material.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or a numbered schedule is a reference to the regulation or schedule so numbered in these Regulations.

(1)

OJ No. L250, 7.10.93, p.9.

(2)

Council Directive 91/682/EEC on the marketing of ornamental plant propagating material and ornamental plants (OJ No. L376, 31.12.91, p.21), as amended by Commission Decision 95/19/EC (OJ No. L28, 7.2.95, p.10).