The Cereal Seed (England) Regulations 2002

Entry of seed lots

6.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an application to enter a seed lot from which it is intended that a crop is to be produced from which pre-basic, basic, CS, C1 or C2 seed is to be harvested may be made to the Secretary of State by a registered person.

(2) An application made under this regulation—

(a) shall be made in such form and manner as the Secretary of State may require;

(b) shall be made—

(i) at such time as the Secretary of State may require, or

(ii) in the case of an application to enter a seed lot made after that time, at such time as the Secretary of State may otherwise allow; and

(c) shall be accompanied—

(i) unless otherwise agreed by the Secretary of State, by an official sample of seed taken from the seed lot that is identified by the reference number of the seed lot from which it was taken, and

(ii) by such information and other documents as the Secretary of State may require, including, if required, a copy of a qualifying seed test report relating to the seed lot.

(3) At an appropriate time following the receipt of an application made under this regulation, the Secretary of State—

(a) may sow a control plot with seed taken from an official sample of seed taken from the seed lot (whether the official sample submitted in accordance with paragraph (2)(c)(i) or another official sample of seed taken from the seed lot), and

(b) in the case of an application to enter a seed lot from which it is intended to produce a crop from which CS seed of a hybrid variety of rye is to be harvested, shall sow a control plot with seed taken from an official sample of seed taken from the seed lot unless a control plot has already been sown with seed from an official sample of the seed lot.

(4) In this regulation—

“appropriate time” means a time during the period when seed of the relevant species is usually sown, and

“qualifying seed test report” means—

(a)

a seed test report issued in accordance with regulation 11(8), (9), (10) or (11), or

(b)

in a case where an official sample taken from the seed lot has been found to meet the conditions for the category of seed for which it was tested under regulation 11(6)(b), a seed test report issued in accordance with regulation 11(12)(b).