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Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables
Statutory Text (4 Articles)
Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 19,607, 12 ta’ Lulju, 2016
L.N. 256 of 2016
PLANT QUARANTINE ACT
(CAP. 433)
Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables
(Amendment) Regulations, 2016
IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 32 of the Plant
Quarantine Act, the Minister for Sustainable Development, the
Environment and Climate Change has made the following
regulations:-
(1) The title of these regulations is the Seeds of Citation and
Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment) Regulations, 2016, scope.
and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the
Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 433.21
referred to as "the principal regulations".
(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission
Implementing Directive (EU) 2015/1955 amending Annexes I and II
to Council Directive 66/402/EEC on the marketing of cereal seed.
Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be amended Amends
Schedule II to
as follows
the principal
regulations.
(a)
in Section 1 Part I Point C. thereof, for the words
"C. Crops to produce certified seed of hybrids of Avena nuda,
Avena sativa, Avena strigosa, Hordeum vulgare, Triticum
aestivum, Triticum durum, Triticum spelta and self-pollinating
xTriticosecale:", there shall be substituted the words "C. Crops
to produce certified seed of hybrids of Avena nuda, Avena
sativa, Avena strigosa, Triticum aestivum, Triticum durum,
Triticum spelta and self-pollinating xTriticosecale and crops to
produce certified seed of hybrids of Hordeum vulgare by means
of a technique other than Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS):";
and
(b) immediately after Section 1 Part I Point C.2. thereof,
there shall be added the following
"3. Crops to produce basic and certified seed of
hybrids of Hordeum vulgare by means of the technique of
CMS
(a) The crop shall conform to the following
standards as regards distances from neighbouring
sources of pollen which may result in undesirable
foreign pollination
Crop
Minimum distance
For the production of basic seed
100m
For the production of certified
seed
50m
(b) The crop shall have sufficient varietal
identity and purity as regards the characteristics of
the components.
In particular, the crop shall conform to the
following standards
(i)
The percentage by number of
plants which are obviously not being true to
type shall not exceed
- for the crops used to produce
basic seed, 0.1% for the maintainer and
the restorer line and 0.2% for the CMS
female component, and
- for the crops used to produce
certified seed, 0.3% for the restorer and
the CMS female component and 0.5% in
case the CMS female component is a
single hybrid.
(ii) The level of male sterility of the
female component shall be at least
- 99.7% for crops
used
to
produce basic seed, and
- 99.5% for crops
used
to
produce certified seed.
(iii) The requirements of points (i) and
(ii) shall be examined in official post-control
test.
(c)
Certified seed may be produced in
mixed cultivation of female male-sterile
component with a male component which restores
fertility.".
Schedule III to the principal regulations shall be amended Amends
Schedule III to
as follows
the principal
regulations.
(a)
Section 1 Part I Point 1.C. thereof shall be
substituted by the following
"C. Hybrids of Avena nuda, Avena sativa, Avena
strigosa, Hordeum vulgare, Triticum aestivum, Triticum
durum, Triticum spelta and self-pollinating x Triticosecale
The minimum varietal purity of the seed of the
category certified seed shall be 90%.
In case of Hordeum vulgare produced by means of
Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS), it shall be 85%.
Impurities other than the restorer shall not exceed 2%.
The minimum varietal purity shall be examined in
official post-control test on an appropriate proportion of
samples."; and
(b) in Section 1 Part I Point 1.E. thereof, for the words
"E. Hybrids of Secale cereale:", there shall be substituted the
words "E. Hybrids of Secale cereale and CMS-hybrids of
Hordeum vulgare:".
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