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Article 1 F1

United Kingdom

F2Field inspections concerning the seed-producing crops of the species specified in Annex I to this Decision F3... carried out in the F4... countries listed in that Annex shall be considered equivalent to field inspections carried out in accordance with F5the Seeds Marketing Regulations and Council Directive 2002/55/EC^f1 provided that they:

(a)
are carried out officially by the authorities listed in Annex I, or under the official supervision of those authorities;
(b)
satisfy the conditions laid down in point A of Annex II.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Substituted by Council Decision of 8 November 2005 on the equivalence of checks on practices for the maintenance of varieties carried out in certain third countries and amending Decision 2003/17/EC (2005/834/EC).
F2: Substituted by Decision (EU) 2018/1674 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 amending Council Decision 2003/17/EC as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in the Federative Republic of Brazil on fodder plant seed-producing crops and cereal seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of fodder plant seed and cereal seed produced in the Federative Republic of Brazil, and as regards the equivalence of field inspections carried out in the Republic of Moldova on cereal seed-producing crops, vegetable seed-producing crops and oil and fibre plant seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of cereal seed, vegetable seed and oil and fibre plant seed produced in the Republic of Moldova.
F3: Words in Art. 1 omitted (15.4.2021) by virtue of The Vegetable and Ornamental Plant Propagating Material and Fodder Plant Seed (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/393), regs. 1(1), 6(3)
F4: Word in Art. 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/162), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(3)(b) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 30(3)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5: Words in Art. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/162), regs. 1(2)(b), 6(3)(c) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 30(3)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Footnotes

f1: Council Directive 2002/55/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed ( OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 33 ).