The Seed Potatoes (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made: 27th August 2009

Laid before Parliament: 3rd September 2009

Coming into force: 1st October 2009

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Citation and commencement

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Amendment

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Regulation 2 (interpretation)

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Insertion of new regulation 4A

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Schedule 2 (official label)

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Signed

Jim Fitzpatrick — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 27th August 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1161) to implement, in England, Commission Directive 2008/62/EC providing for certain derogations for acceptance of agricultural landraces and varieties which are naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion and for marketing of seed and seed potatoes of those landraces and varieties, in so far as it relates to seed production and marketing (OJ No L 162, 21.6.08, p 13).

Regulation 4 inserts a new provision specifying certain requirements in relation to the marketing of seed potatoes of a conservation variety (as defined in regulation 3) and regulation 5 makes provision for the labelling requirements in Article 18 of Commission Directive 2008/62/EC.

Contravention of any of the provisions introduced by these Regulations is an offence under section 16(7)(b) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 (c. 14).

A transposition note is available from the Food and Environment Agency, Plant Health Policy Office, Sand Hutton, York, YO41 1LZ and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the Office of Public Sector Information website.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1964 c. 14. Section 16 has been amended by the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68), section 4 and Schedule 4, paragraph 5, S.I. 1977/1112 and the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49), section 2.

[^f00002]: See section 38(1) for the definition of “the Minister”. Under S.I. 2002/794 the functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 which remained vested in that Minister at the date of that instrument were transferred to the Secretary of State.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2006/1161, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations.

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Editorial notes

[^key-e06fd47947be968ade2def513407131e]: Regulations revoked (1.1.2016) by The Seed Potatoes (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1953), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(c) (with reg. 1(3))