Health requirements for pre-basic mother plants and for pre-basic material
- Ensure pre-basic fruit plant material is free from RNQPs
Scottish Statutory Instrument
2017
United Kingdom
The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Scotland) Regulations 2017
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What's here
14 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
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Schedules
Health requirements for basic mother plants and basic material
- Ensure basic mother plants and basic material are free from regulated pests
Health requirements for certified mother plants and certified material
- Ensure certified fruit plants are free from pests and diseases
Verification of trueness to the description of variety
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Scottish Ministers must regularly verify trueness of pre-basic fruit plant varieties Crown / Minister / Government department
Maintenance of pre-basic mother plants and pre-basic material
- Maintain pre-basic mother plants and material in insect-proof facilities
CAC material: trueness to the description of the variety
- Verify fruit plant material matches its variety description
A supplier's document for CAC material must—
- Include required information on CAC material supplier documents
Where it is affixed to the CAC material in the...
- Use yellow label for supplier's document when affixed to CAC material
Browse 49 other Schedules — structural / supplementary
Interpretation
Soil requirements for pre-basic mother plants and pre-basic material
Defects
Requirements concerning multiplication, renewal and propagation of pre-basic mother plants
Requirements concerning multiplication, renewal and propagation by micropropagation of pre-basic mother plants
Requirements for the certification of basic material
Rootstocks not belonging to a variety
Soil requirements for basic mother plants and basic material
Requirements concerning the maintenance of basic mother plants and basic material
Provisions on official inspections
Conditions for multiplication and multiplication by micropropagation of basic mother plants
Requirements for certification as certified material
Rootstocks not belonging to a variety
Soil requirements for certified mother plants and certified material
Requirements with regard to the production site, place of production or area
Pre-basic material (other than mother plants and rootstocks not belonging to a variety)
Rootstocks not belonging to a variety
Acceptance of plants as pre-basic mother plants
Acceptance of rootstocks not belonging to a variety as a pre-basic mother plant
Health requirements for candidate pre-basic mother plants and for pre-basic mother plants produced by renewal
Conditions for CAC material other than rootstocks not belonging to a variety
CAC material: rootstocks not belonging to a variety
Requirements with regard to the production site, place of production or area
Interpretation
Uniformity
Stability
Register of varieties
Registration
Application for registration with an official description
Growing trials
Duration and renewal of acceptance
Removal from register
Additional requirements for products to be used as genetically modified food or feed
Distinctness
An official label used in relation to pre-basic material must...
An official label used in relation to basic material must...
An official label used in relation to certified material must...
An official label must— (a) contain the statement “UK rules...
The information and particulars required on an official label must...
The information and particulars required in a supplier's document must...
An accompanying document must— (a) contain the information listed in...
In this schedule, “Commission Implementing Decision 2017/925” means Commission Implementing...
Propagating material must comply with— (a) the requirements concerning GB...
Powers of entry etc.
Information notice
Prohibition on movement
Enforcement and prohibition notices
Appeals against enforcement and prohibition notices
Compliance with notices
The register of suppliers
- Notify Scottish Ministers of any changes to your supplier registration details
Supplier's duties – identification and monitoring during production
- Create and maintain a production monitoring plan
Supplier's duties – removal of non-compliant materials and notification of disease
- Remove non-compliant propagating materials and notify authorities of disease
Supplier's duties – separation of plant materials
- Keep fruit plant materials separated by lot, category and generation
Supplier's duties - record keeping
- Keep detailed records of plant material sales, production and health
Transitional provisions for supplier’s documents affixed to CAC material
- Include Article 3 statement on transitional supplier documents
Browse 20 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation, commencement and extent
Interpretation
Application of these Regulations
Marketing of plant materials for trials etc.
General requirements for marketing of plant material
Exemptions in relation to retail supply
Varieties which may be marketed
Labelling, sealing and packaging
Accompanying document
Registration of suppliers
Revocation of registration etc.
Appeals
Inspectors
Notices
Offences and penalties
Offences by bodies corporate, Scottish partnerships and unincorporated associations
Arrangements for official measures
Transitional provision
Transitional provision for official labels on IP completion day
Revocation
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