The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011

26.—(1) The Plant Protection Products Regulations 2011 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 10—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) A person must not place on the market or use in a constituent territory (“the relevant constituent territory”) seeds treated with a plant protection product, other than an appropriate plant protection product, or cause or permit another person to do so.

(1A) Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to seeds which a competent authority must not prohibit in accordance with Article 49 as read with paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.”;

(b) in paragraph (3), for the words from “plant” to the end, substitute “an appropriate plant protection product, or seeds which a competent authority must not prohibit in accordance with Article 49 as read with paragraph 14 of Schedule 1 to the Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.”;

(c) after paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) In this regulation, “appropriate plant protection product” means—

(a) a plant protection product authorised in relation to the relevant constituent territory for use on such seeds, or

(b) a plant protection product authorised in relation to another constituent territory for use on such seeds, where—

(i) every active substance, low-risk active substance or candidate for substitution in that product is approved in relation to the relevant constituent territory, and

(ii) every co-formulant in that product does not appear on the unacceptable co-formulants register in relation to the relevant constituent territory.”.