Regulations, 2021

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 20,758, 28 ta’ Diċembru, 2021

L.N. 507 of 2021

PLANT QUARANTINE ACT

(CAP. 433)

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment No. 2)

Regulations, 2021

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 32 of the Plant

Quarantine Act, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and

Animal Rights has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Seeds of Citation and

Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment No. 2) Regulations, scope.

2021 and these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the

Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 433.30.

referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission

Implementing Directive (EU) 2021/971 of 16 June 2021 amending

Annex I to Council Directive 66/401/EEC on the marketing of fodder

plant seed, Annex I to Council Directive 66/402/EEC on the marketing

of cereal seed, Annex I to Council Directive 2002/54/EC on the

marketing of beet seed, Annex I to Council Directive 2002/55/EC on

the marketing of vegetable seed and Annex I to Council Directive

2002/57/EC on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants, as regards

the use of biochemical and molecular techniques.

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 2 shall be substituted by Amends

regulation 2 to

the following new sub-regulation

the principal

regulations.

"(2) These regulations also apply to the production, with a

view to marketing and to the marketing of seeds of agricultural

plants and vegetables of the genera, species and their hybrids

listed in Schedule I of these regulations, within the European

Union and shall apply without prejudice to the plant health rules

laid down by Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 on protective measures

against pests of plants.".

Schedule II to the principal regulations shall be amended as Amends

Schedule II to

follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) the following point shall be added between points 4

and A. 1. of Part 1 Agricultural Plants Section I. Cereals

"4.a In

the

case

where,

following

the

implementation of points 1., 4. and A.1, there is still doubt

as to the varietal identity of the seed, the certification

authority may use, for the examination of that identity, an

internationally recognised and reproducible biochemical or

molecular technique, in accordance with the applicable

international standards.";

(b) the following point shall be added between points 4

and 5 of Part 1 Agricultural Plants Section II. Fodder Plants

"4.a In

the

case

where,

following

the

implementation of points 1. and 4., there is still doubt as to

the varietal identity of the seed, the certification authority

may use, for the examination of that identity, an

internationally recognised and reproducible biochemical or

molecular technique, in accordance with the applicable

international standards."; and

(c) the following point shall be added between points 4

and 5 of Part 2 Vegetables.

"4.a In

the

case

where,

following

the

implementation of points 1. and 4., there is still doubt as to

the varietal identity of the seed, the certification authority

may use, for the examination of that identity, an

internationally recognised and reproducible biochemical or

molecular technique, in accordance with the applicable

international standards.".

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