S.I. No. 213/2017 - European Communities (Seed of Fodder Plants) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Seed of Fodder Plants) (Amendment) Regulations 2017.

2. The European Communities (Seed of Fodder Plants) Regulations 2002 (

S.I. No. 198 of 2002

) are amended in Regulation 2(1) by substituting for the definition of “Directive” (as amended by the European Communities (Seed of Fodder Plants) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (

S.I. No. 372 of 2013

)) the following

“’Directive’ means Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed

5

(as amended by Council Directive 69/63/EEC of 18 February 1969

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, Council Directive 71/162/EEC of 30 March 1971

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, Council Directive 72/274/EEC of 20 July 1972

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, Council Directive 72/418/EEC of 6 December 1972

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, Council Directive 73/438/EEC of 11 December 1973

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, Council Directive 75/444/EEC of 26 June 1975

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, Council Directive 78/55/EEC of 19 December 1977

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, First Commission Directive 78/386/EEC of 18 April 1978

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, Council Directive 78/692/EEC of 25 July 1978

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, Council Directive 78/1020/EEC of 5 December 1978

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, Commission Directive 79/641/EEC of 27 June 1979

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, Council Directive 79/692/EEC of 24 July 1979

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, Commission Directive 80/754/EEC of 17 July 1980

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,

Commission Directive 81/126/EEC of 16 February 1981

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, Commission Directive 82/287/EEC of 13 April 1982

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, Commission Directive 85/38/EEC of 14 December 1984

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, Council Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 of 20 December 1985

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

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, Commission Directive 87/120/EEC of 14 January 1987

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, Commission Directive 87/480/EEC of 9 September 1987

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

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, Council Directive 88/380/EEC of 13 June 1988

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, Commission Directive 89/100/EEC of 20 January 1989

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, Council Directive 90/654/EEC of 4 December 1990

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, Commission Directive 92/19/EEC of 23 March 1992

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, Commission Directive 96/18/EC of 19 March 1996

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, Council Directive 96/72/EC of 18 November 1996

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, Council Directive 98/95/EC of 14 December 1998

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, Council Directive 98/96/EC of 14 December 1998

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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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, Commission Directive 2004/55/EC of 20 April 2004

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

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, Commission Directive 2007/72/EC of 13 December 2007

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

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, Commission Implementing Directive 2012/37/EU of 22 November 2012

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, Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/317 of 3 March 2016 and Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 of 1 December 2016) and 2004/842/EC: Commission Decision of 1 December 2004 (as amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/320 of 3 March 2016);”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

31 March 2017.

MICHAEL CREED,

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 (EU) 2016/317 of 3 March 2016 and Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 of 1 December 2016 which amends Council Directive 66/401 as regards the official label of seed packages and as regards the inclusion of new species and the botanical name of the species

Lolium x boucheanum

Kunth

These Regulations also give effect to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/320 of 3 March 2016 amending Decision 2004/842/EC concerning implementing rules whereby Member States may grant an authorization to place on the market seed belonging to varieties for which an application for entry in the national catalogues of varieties of agricultural plant species or vegetable species has been submitted

1 OJ L 60, 5.03.2016, p. 72

2 OJ L 327, 2.12.2016, p. 59

3 OJ L 362, 9.12.2004, p. 21

4 OJ L 60, 5.3.2016, p. 88

5 OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2298

6 OJ L 48, 26.2.1969, p. 8

7 OJ L 87, 17.4.1971, p. 24

8 OJ L 171,29.7.1972, p. 37

9 OJ L 287, 26.12.1972, p. 22

10 OJ L 356, 27.12.1973, p. 79

11 OJ L 196, 26.7.1975, p. 6

12 OJ L 16, 20.1.1978, p. 23

13 OJ L 113, 25.4.1978, p. 1

14 OJ L 236, 26.8.1978, p. 13

15 OJ L 350, 14.12.1978, p. 27

16 OJ L 183, 19.7.1979, p. 13

17 OJ L 205, 13.8.1979, p. 1

18 OJ L 207, 9.8.1980, p. 36

19 OJ L 67, 12.3.1981, p. 36

20 OJ L 131, 13.5.1982, p. 24

21 OJ L 16, 19.1.1985, p. 41

22 OJ L 362, 31.12.1985, p. 8

23 OJ L 118, 7.5.1986, p. 23

24 OJ L 49, 18.2.1987, p. 39

25 OJ L 273, 26.9.1987, p. 43

26 OJ L 151, 17.6.1988, p.82

27 OJ L 187, 16.7.1988, p. 31

28 OJ L 38, 10.2.1989, p. 36

29 OJ L 353, 17.12.1990, p. 48

30 OJ L 104, 22.4.1992, p. 61

31 OJ L 76, 26.3.1996, p.21

32 OJ L 304, 27.11.1996, p. 10

33 OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 1

34 OJ L 25, 1.2.1999, p. 27

35 OJ L 234, 1.9.2001, p. 60

36 OJ L 165, 3.7.2003, p. 23

37 OJ L 114 21.4.2004, p.18

38 OJ L 14 18.1.2005, p. 18

39 OJ L 329 14.12.2007, p. 37

40 OJ L 166 27.6.2009, p. 40

41 OJ L 325, 23.11.2012, p. 13

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th May

, 2017.

I, MICHAEL CREED, 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 (EU) 2016/317 of 3 March 2016

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and Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 of 1 December 2016

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and further effect to 2004/842/EC: Commission Decision of 1 December 2004

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(as amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/320 of 3 March 2016

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), hereby make the following regulations