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Examination of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,702, 25 ta’ Jannar, 2011
Taqsima B
L.N. 18 of 2011
PLANT QUARANTINE ACT
(CAP. 433)
Examination of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species
(Amendment) Regulations, 2011
IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 32 of the Plant
Quarantine Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs, after
consulting the Plant Health Directorate, has made the following
regulations:-
(1) The title of these regulations is the Examination of
Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species (Amendment) Regulations,
2011 and they shall be read and construed as one with the
Examination of Varieties of Agricultural Plant Species Regulations,
2006, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.
(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose
Commission Directive 2010/46/EU amending Commission
Directives 2003/90/EC and 2003/91/EC, as regards the minimum
characteristics and the minimum conditions for examining certain
varieties of agricultural plant species and vegetable species.
For Schedule I to the principal regulations, there shall be
substituted the following
“Schedule I
CPVO Guidelines
Regulation 3(1)(a)(i)
Applicability of Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) guidelines to the
following list of the genera and species of Agricultural Plants
I.
Cereals
Table 1.1
Scientific name
Common name
CPVO protocol
Avena nuda L.
Small naked oat,
TP 20/1 of 6.11.2003
Hulless oat
Avena sativa L. (includes
Oats and Red oat
TP 20/1 of 6.11.3003
A. byzantina K. Koch)
Hordeum vulgare L.
Barley
TP
19/2
rev
of
03.2010
Secale cereale L.
Rye
TP 58/1 of 31.10.2002
Triticosecale Wittm. ex
Hybrids
resulting
TP 121/2 of 22.1.2007
A. Camus
from the crossing of a
species of the genus
Triticum
and
a
species of the genus
Secale
Triticum aestivum L.
Wheat
TP 3/4 rev of 28.10.2009
Triticum durum Desf.
Durum wheat
TP 120/2 of 6.11.2003
Zea mays L.
Maize
TP 2/3 of 11.3.2010
II. Fodder Plants
Table 1.2
Scientific name
Common name
CPVO protocol
Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
Pisum sativum L.
Field pea
TP 7/2 of 11.03.2010
III.Potatoes
Table 1.3
Scientific name
Common name
CPVO protocol
Solanum tuberosum L.
Potato
TP 23/2 of 1.12.2005
3. For Schedule II to the principal regulations, there shall be substituted the following
“Schedule II
UPOV Guidelines
Regulation 3(1)(a)(ii)
3. For Schedule II to the principal regulations, there shall be
Substitutes
Schedule II to
substituted the following
the principal
regulations.
“Schedule II
UPOV Guidelines
Regulation 3(1)(a)(ii)
Applicability of International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of
Plants (UPOV) guidelines to the following list of the genera and species of
agricultural plants
I. Cereals
Table 2.1
Scientific name
Common name
UPOV protocol
Sorghum bicolor (L.)
Sorghum
TG/122/3 of 6.10.1989
Moench
II. Fodder Plants
Table 2.2
Scientific name
Common name
UPOV protocol
Poaceae (Gramineae)
Agrostis canina L.
Velvet bent
TG/30/6 of 12.10.1990
Agrostis capillaris L.
Brown top
TG/30/6 of 12.10.1990
Agrostis gigantea Roth.
Red top
TG/30/6 of 12.10.1990
Agrostis stolonifera L.
Creeping bent
TG/30/6 of 12.10.1990
Festuca filiformis Pourr.
Fine-leaved sheep’s
TG/67/5 of 05.04.2006
fescue
Festuca ovina L.
Sheep’s fescue
TG/67/5 of 05.04.2006
Festuca pratensis Huds.
Meadow fescue
TG/39/8 of 17.4.2002
Festuca rubra L.
Red fescue
TG/67/5 of 05.04.2006
Festuca trachyphylla
Hard fescue
TG/67/5 of 05.04.2006
(Hack.) Krajina
Lolium multiflorum Lam.
Italian ryegrass
TG/4/8 of 05.04.2006
Lolium perenne L.
Perennial ryegrass
TG/4/8 of 05.04.2006
Poa pratensis L.
Smooth-stalked
TG/33/6 of 12.10.1990
meadow grass
Fabaceae (Leguminosae)
Medicago sativa L.
Lucerne
TG/6/5 of 6.4.2005
Trifolium pratense L.
Red clover
TG/5/7 of 4.4.2001
Vicia faba L.
Field Bean
TG/8/6/of 17.4.2002
Vicia sativa L.
Common vetch
TG/32/6 of 21.10.1988
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