S.I. No. 179/2012 - European Communities (Cereal Seed) (Amendment) Regulations 2012.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Cereal Seed)(Amendment) Regulations 2012.

2. The European Communities (Cereal Seed) Regulations 2001 (

S.I. No. 640 of 2001

) are amended in Regulation 2 (1), by substituting for the definition of “Directive”, the following—

“ ‘Directive’ means Council Directive No. 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966

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as amended by Council Directive No. 69/60/EEC of 18 February 1969

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; Council Directive No. 71/162/EEC of 30 March 1971

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; Council Directive No. 72/274/EEC of 20 July 1972

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; Council Directive No. 72/418/EEC of 6 December 1972

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; Council Directive No. 73/438/EEC of 11 December 1973

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; Council Decision No. 74/532/EEC of 16 October 1974

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; Council Directive No. 75/444/EEC of 26 June 1975

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; Council Directive No. 78/55/EEC of 19 December 1977

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; First Commission Directive No. 78/387/EEC of 18 April 1978

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; Council Directive No. 78/692/EEC of 25 July 1978

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; Council Directive No.78/1020/EEC of 5 December 1978

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; Commission Directive No. 79/641/EEC of 27 June 1979

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; Council Directive No. 79/692/EEC of 24 July 1979

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; Commission Decision No. 80/755/EEC of 17 July 1980

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; Council Directive 86/155/EEC of 22 April 1986

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; Commission Directive 86/320/EEC of 20 June 1986

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; Commission Directive No. 81/126/EEC of 16 February 1981

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; Commission Directive No. 87/120/EEC of 14 January 1987

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; Council Directive 88/332/EEC of 13 June 1988

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; Council Directive No. 88/380/EEC of 13 June 1988

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; Commission Directive No. 88/506/EEC of 13 September 1988

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; Commission Directive No. 89/2/EEC of 15 December 1988

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; Commission Decision No.89/101/EEC of 20 January 1989

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; Commission Directive No. 90/623/EEC of 7 November 1990

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; Commission Directive No 93/2/EEC of 28 January 1993

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; Commission Directive No. 95/6/EC of 20 March 1995

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; Council Directive No. 96/72/EC of 18 November 1996

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; Council Directive No.98/95/EC of 14 December 1998

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; Council Directive No. 98/96/EC of 14 December, 1998

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; Commission Directive 1999/8/EC of 18 February 1999

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; Commission Directive 1999/54/EC of 26 May 1999

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; Council Directive 2001/64/EC of 31 August 2001

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; Council Directive 2003/61/EC of 18 June 2003

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; Council Directive 2004/117/EC of 22 December 2004

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; Commission Directive No. 2006/55/EC of 12 June 2006

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; Commission Directive 2009/74/EC of 26 June 2009

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and Commission Implementing Directive 2012/1/EU of 6 January 2012;”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal

29 May 2012.

SIMON COVENEY,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

These Regulations give effect to the provisions of Commission Implementing Directive 2012/1/EU of 6 January 2012 which amends Annex 1 point 3 A. to Council Directive 66/402/EEC as regards the conditions to be satisfied by the crop Oryza sativa.

1 O.J. No. L 4, 7.1.2012, p.8

2 O.J. No. L 125, 11.7.1966, p.2309

3 O.J. No. L 48, 26.2.1969, p.1

4 O.J. No. L 87, 17.4.1971, p.24

5 O.J. No. L 171, 29.7.1972, p.37

6 O.J. No. L 287, 26.12.1972, p.22

7 O.J. No. L 356, 27.12.1973, p.79

8 O.J. No. L 299, 7.11.1974, p.14

9 O.J. No. L 196, 26.7.1975, p.6

10 O.J. No. L 16, 20.1.1978, p.23

11 O.J. No. L 113, 25.4.1978, p.13

12 O.J. No. L 236, 26.8.1978, p.13

13 O.J. No. L 350, 14.12.1978, p.27

14 O.J. No. L 183, 19.7.1979, p.13

15 O.J. No. L 205, 13.8.1979, p.1

16 O.J. No. L 207, 9.8.1980, p.37

17 O.J. No. L 118, 7.5.1986, p.23

18 O.J. No. L 200, 23.7.1986, p.38

19 O.J. No. L 67, 12.3.1981, p.36

20 O.J. No. L 49, 18.2.1987, p.39

21 O.J. No. L 151, 17.6.1988, p.82

22 O.J. No. L 187, 16.7.1988, p. 31

23 O.J. No. L 274, 6.10.1988, p.44

24 O.J. No. L 5, 7.1.1989, p.31

25 O.J. No. L 38, 10.2.1989, p.37

26 O.J. No. L 333, 30.11.1990, p.65

27 O.J. No. L 54, 5.3.1993, p.20

28 O.J. No. L 67, 25.3.1995, p.30

29 O.J. No. L 304, 27.11.1996, p.10

30 O.J. No. L 25, 1.2.1999, p.1

31 O.J. No. L 25, 1.2.1999, p.27

32 O.J. No. L 50, 26.2.1999, p.26

33 O.J. No. L 142, 5.6.1999, p.30

34 O.J. No. L 234, 1.9.2001, p.60

35 O.J. No. L 165, 3.7.2003, p.23

36 O.J. No. L 14, 18.1.2005, p.18

37 O.J. No. L 159, 13.6.2006, p.13

38 O.J. No. L 166, 27.6.2009, p.40

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

1

st June

, 2012.

I, SIMON COVENEY, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), for the purpose of giving effect to Commission Implementing Directive 2012/1/EU of 6 January 2012

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, hereby make the following regulations—