The Marketing of Fruit Plant Material Regulations 2010

Made: 11th August 2010

Laid before Parliament: 19th August 2010

Coming into force: 17th September 2010

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PART 1 — Introduction

Title and commencement

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Interpretation

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Application

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Marketing of plant material for trials etc.

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Notices

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PART 2 — Accreditation and registration

Accreditation of producers

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Registration

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Revocation etc.

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Appeals

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Registration of varieties

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PART 3 — Marketing of plant material

Varieties that may be marketed

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Quality requirements for plant material

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References to plant material

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Accompanying documentation

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Marketing of citrus plant material

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PART 4 — Additional requirements

Measures to be taken by producers

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Monitoring of production process

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Record-keeping

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PART 5 — Enforcement etc.

Inspectors

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Offences and penalties

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Offences by bodies corporate

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Offences by partnerships or unincorporated associations

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Transitional provisions

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — Genera and species to which these Regulations apply

Genera and species	Common name (for guidance only)
Castanea sativaMill.	Chestnut
Citrus L.	includes Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Mandarin and Orange
Corylus avellanaL.	Hazel
Cydonia oblongaMill.	Quince
Ficus caricaL.	Common edible fig
FortunellaSwingle	Kumquat
FragariaL.	all cultivated strawberry species
Juglans regia L.	Walnut
MalusMill.	Apple
Olea europaeaL.	Olive
Pistacia veraL.	Pistachio
PoncirusRaf.	Trifoliate orange
Prunus armeniacaL.	Apricot
Prunus avium(L.) L.	Sweet cherry
Prunus cerasusL.	Sour cherry
Prunus domesticaL.	Plum
Prunus dulcis(Mill) D A Webb (otherwise known as Prunus amygdalusBatsch)	Almond
Prunus persica(L.) Batsch	Peach
Prunus salicinaLindley	Japanese plum
PyrusL.	All cultivated edible pears, including perry pears
RibesL.	Blackcurrant, gooseberry, redcurrant and white currant
Rubus L.	Blackberry, raspberry and hybrid berries
VacciniumL.	includes Blueberry, cranberry and bilberry

SCHEDULE 2 — Registration of varieties of fruit plant

Registration

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Additional requirements for genetically modified varieties

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Additional requirements for products to be used as genetically modified food or feed

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Removal from the register

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Distinctness

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Uniformity

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Stability

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Interpretation

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SCHEDULE 3 — Accompanying information

PART 1 — Plant material not accompanied by a plant passport

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PART 2 — Plant material accompanied by a plant passport

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SCHEDULE 4 — Powers of inspectors

Powers of entry etc.

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Information notice

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Prohibition on movement

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Enforcement and prohibition notices

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Appeals against enforcement and prohibition notices

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Compliance with notices

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Signed

Jim Paice — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2010-08-11

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations continue to implement Council Directive 92/34/EEC on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production (OJ No L 157, 10.6.1992, p. 10). They also implement Council Directive 2008/90/EC on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production (OJ No L 267, 8.10.2008, p 8).

Part 2 provides for the accreditation of producers and registration of suppliers and varieties of fruit plant. Regulation 6 prohibits a producer from marketing fruit plants and propagating material without being accredited by the appropriate authority. Regulation 7 provides for the registration of all persons involved professionally in the marketing, production, reproduction or importation of fruit plant material and prohibits, from 30 September 2012, the marketing of such material without being registered. Schedule 2 makes provision for the registration of varieties of fruit plant that are distinct, uniform and stable and which conform to international standards for the variety. Schedule 2 also makes provision for the registration of other varieties that are marketed in the United Kingdom before 30th September 2012 and provides additional criteria for the registration of genetically modified varieties.

Part 3 sets out the requirements for marketing fruit plants and propagating material. Regulation 11, which applies from 30th September 2012, specifies the varieties that may be marketed from that date. Regulation 12 sets out the quality requirements for fruit plant material, including that it must be substantially free on visual inspection from the specified organisms and diseases and defects likely to impair its usefulness and it must have adequate identity and purity relative to its genus, species or variety. Regulation 14 sets out the information that must accompany fruit plants and propagating material when it is marketed. Regulation 15 sets out additional quality requirements for the marketing of Citrus.

Part 4 imposes additional requirements on suppliers including requirements on producers to treat fruit plant material showing signs of any of the specified organism or diseases (regulation 16) and to monitor the production process in accordance with regulation 17. Regulation 18 requires suppliers to keep records.

Part 5 deals with the enforcement of these Regulations. Regulation 19 provides for the appointment of inspectors. Schedule 4 sets out inspectors’ powers, including a power to serve a notice on any person to require that person to provide information and a power to prohibit the movement of plant material that is not substantially free from the diseases and organisms referred to in regulation 12(a). An inspector also has a power to serve a notice on any person acting in contravention of these Regulations to require that person to comply with the Regulations or to prohibit that person from acting in breach of them. Under regulation 20(1) a person who fails to comply with any such notice is guilty of an offence. Under regulation 20(2) a person guilty of an offence under the Regulations is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

A transposition note and an impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector is available from the Food and Environment Research Agency, Whitehouse Lane, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 OLF and is annexed to the Explanatory Memorandum which is available alongside the instrument on the OPSI website.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68. The power of the Secretary of State, as a designated Minister, to make Regulations that extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland and apply in Wales remains exercisable by virtue of section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), article 3(2) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2812) and article 4(4) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2766) respectively.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1972/1811.

[^f00003]: OJ No L 267, 8.10.2008, p.8.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 250, 7.10.93, p.1.

[^f00005]: 1997 c. 66.

[^f00006]: OJ No L 227, 1.9.1994, p1 as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 15/2008 (OJ No L 8, 11.1.2008, p2).

[^f00007]: OJ No L 256, 14.10.93, p.25.

[^f00008]: S.I. 1995/2653 as amended in relation to England by S.I. 2004/2603, in relation to Wales by S.I. 2005/1155 and in relation to Scotland by S.S.I. 2004/471.

[^f00009]: S.R. (N.I.) 1995 No. 416 as amended by S.R. (N.I.) 2004 No. 430.

[^f00010]: OJ No L 169, 10.7.2000, p.1 as last amended by Commission Directive 2010/1/EU (OJ No L 7, 12.1.2010, p. 17).

[^f00011]: 1925 c. 86 (15 & 16 Geo 5); section 33 has been amended by section 132 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952 (c. 55), section 56(1) of, and Schedule 8, Part 2 to, the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23) and section 109(1) and (3) of, and Schedule 8 to, the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39).

[^f00012]: 1980 c. 43; Schedule 3 has been amended by section 47 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c.25) and sections 25(2) and 101(2) of, and Schedule 13 to, the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53).

[^f00013]: 1945 c. 15 (N.I.).

[^f00014]: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).

[^f00015]: S.I. 1995/2653 as amended in relation to England by S.I. 2004/2603, in relation to Wales by S.I. 2005/1155 and in relation to Scotland by S.S.I. 2004/471.

[^f00016]: S.R. (N.I.) 1995 No. 416 as amended by S.R. (N.I.) 2004 No. 430.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2004/2603.

[^f00018]: S.I. 2005/1155 (W 72).

[^f00019]: S.S.I 2004/471.

[^f00020]: S.R. (N.I.) 2004 No. 430.

[^f00021]: OJ No L 106, 17.4.2001, p1 as last amended by Directive 2008/27/EC (OJ No L 81, 20.3.2008, p.45).

[^f00022]: OJ No L 268, 18.10.2003, p1 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 298/2008 (OJ No L 97, 9.4.2008, p.64).

[^f00023]: 1980 c.43; sections 51 and 52 have been substituted by section 47 of the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39).

[^f00024]: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).

Editorial notes