Beet Seed (England) Regulations 2002
2002 No. 3171
SEEDS, ENGLAND
The Beet Seed (England) Regulations 2002
Made 18th December 2002
Laid before Parliament 20th December 2002
Coming into force 31th January 2003
The Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on her by sections 16(1), (1A), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (5A) and 36 of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 19641after consultation in accordance with section 16(1) of that Act with representatives of such interests as appear to her to be concerned, hereby makes the following Regulations:
PART I
General
Title, extent and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Beet Seed (England) Regulations 2002, shall extend to England and shall come into force on 31st January 2003.
General interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964;
“Annex IV(C) document” means an official document of the type specified in the second indented sub-paragraph of Article 22(2) of the Beet Seed Directive containing the particulars specified in paragraph C of Annex IV to the Directive;
“another member State” means an EEA State other than the United Kingdom;
“approved seed certification authority” means an authority specified in column 2 of the table set out in Part I of the Annex to the Third Country Equivalence Decision;
“authorised officer” means an officer authorised for the purposes of these Regulations by the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development;
“the Beet Seed Directive” means Council Directive 2002/54/EC2on the marketing of beet seed;
“blended seed lot” means a seed lot obtained by blending seed where the seed that goes into the blend is—
(a) of the same variety;
(b) has come from different sources; and
(c) either—
(i) has been officially certified;
(ii) has not been officially certified but has been harvested from a seed crop for which a field inspection report has been issued showing that the crop met the Directive crop conditions for the relevant category of seed; or
(iii) is made up of seed that has been officially certified and seed that has not but for which a field inspection report of the type specified in sub-paragraph (ii) has been issued;
“breeder”—
(a) in relation to a variety that has not been entered in a National List or the Common Catalogue, includes any person lawfully multiplying (on his own account) seed bred by another, and
(b) in relation to a variety that has been so entered, means the maintainer of the variety;
“breeder’s seed” means seed which has been produced by or under the responsibility of the breeder and that is intended for the production of pre-basic or basic seed;
“Common Catalogue” means the Common Catalogue of varieties of species of agricultural plants published in the Official Journal of the European Communities;
“the Common Catalogue Directive” means Council Directive 2002/53/EC3on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species;
“component” means a component of a hybrid variety;
“control plot” means a plot sown with seed from an official sample of seed from a seed lot (whether the official sample of the seed submitted with a regulation 5 application in accordance with regulation 5(2) or another official sample of the seed);
“Department of Agriculture and Rural Development” means the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland;
“Directive crop conditions” means the conditions laid down in Part A of Annex I to the Beet Seed Directive;
“Directive seed conditions” means the conditions laid down in Part B of Annex I to the Beet Seed Directive;
“the EC minimum percentage of germination” means the appropriate percentage of germination specified in column 2 of the table in paragraph 5 of Schedule 4;
“EEA State” means a State that is a Contracting Party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 19924as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 19935;
“entered seed lot” means a seed lot in respect of which an application has been made under regulation 5 in accordance with regulation 5(2)(a), (b)(i) and (c);
“equivalent third country” means Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey and the United States of America;
“fodder beet” means fodder beet of the species Beta vulgaris L.;
“genetically modified” has the same meaning as for the purposes of Council Directive 2001/18/EC6on the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms and repealing Council Directive 90/220/EEC;
“germination condition” means the condition in paragraph 5 of Schedule 4;
“homogeneous seed lot” means a seed lot that has been subject to appropriate mixing and blending techniques so that the seed in the lot is as uniform as practicable;
“ISTA” means the International Seed Testing Association;
“late entered seed lot” means a seed lot in respect of which an application has been made under regulation 5(1) in accordance with regulation 5(2)(a), (b)(ii) and (c);
“licensed crop inspector” means a person who has been granted a licence under regulation 11 of the Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement)(England) Regulations 20027or by the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development under provisions equivalent to that regulation;
“licensed EC crop inspector” means a person authorised by a competent seed certification authority in another member State, pursuant to Article 2(3)(i)(c) of the Beet Seed Directive, to carry out field inspections of crops in that member State;
“licensed EC seed testing station” means a seed testing laboratory authorised by the competent seed certification authority in another member State, pursuant to Article 3 of Commission Decision 98/320/EC8on the organisation of a temporary experiment on seed sampling and seed testing pursuant to Council Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EECand 69/208/EECas last amended by Commission Decision 2002/280/EC9, to carry out seed testing in that member State;
“licensed seed sampler” means a person who has been granted a licence under regulation 18 of the Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement)(England) Regulations 2002 or by the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development under provisions equivalent to that regulation;
“licensed seed testing station” means a laboratory in respect of which a licence has been granted under regulation 25 of the Seed (Registration, Licensing and Enforcement)(England) Regulations 2002 or by the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development under provisions equivalent to that regulation;
“licensed third country crop inspector” means a person authorised by an approved seed certification authority in an equivalent third country, pursuant to Rule 6(2)(3) of, and Appendix 8 to, the OECD Beet Seed Scheme, to carry out field inspections of crops in that country;
“licensed third country seed testing station” means a seed testing laboratory authorised by the approved seed certification authority in an equivalent third country, pursuant to the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 2(4) of, and Annex V to, the OECD Decision, to carry out seed testing in that country;
“listed variety” means a plant variety that is entered in a National List or the Common Catalogue;
“listing” means the entry of a variety on a National List or the Common Catalogue and “listed” shall be construed accordingly;
“maintainer” means a person who is indicated in a National List or in the Common Catalogue as responsible for maintaining a plant variety in accordance with the characteristics to which regard was had when the plant variety was entered in the List or the Common Catalogue;
“marketing extension” means an extension granted by the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development or the competent seed certification authority in another member State pursuant to Article 15 of the Common Catalogue Directive allowing an extended period for the certification and marketing of seed of a variety that has been deleted from its catalogue and the Common Catalogue;
“member State” means an EEA State;
“monogerm seed” means genetically monogerm seed;
“a National List” means a list of varieties of sugar beet or fodder beet for the time being published in accordance with the Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) Regulations 200110;
“OECD” means the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development;
“OECD Beet Seed Scheme” means the OECD Scheme for the varietal certification of sugar beet and fodder beet moving in international trade in Annex IX to the OECD Decision;
“OECD Certificate” means a certificate issued by or on behalf of an approved seed certification authority in an equivalent third country under the OECD Beet Seed Scheme;
“OECD Decision” means the Decision of the OECD Council revising the OECD Schemes for Varietal Certification of the Control of Seed Moving in International Trade11;
“OECD List” means the OECD List of Varieties Eligible for Certification;
“official label” means a label issued or authorised by or on behalf of the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development;
“official measures” includes—
(a) the disposal and determination, where applicable, of applications made in accordance with regulation 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17 and 18, including the growing and assessment of control plots and the carrying out of field inspections and seed testing in connection with the disposal and determination of such applications; and
(b) the receipt and...
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