{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/5",
  "legislation_title": "The Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations implement Commission Directive 2010/60/EU (OJ L 228, 31.08.10, p.10). They amend the Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (“the principal Regulations”) in order to permit the marketing of preservation mixtures.\nRegulation 4 inserts a new regulation 8A in the principal Regulations to provide a procedure whereby a producer established in Scotland may apply to the Scottish Ministers for an authorisation to market either a directly harvested or a crop-grown preservation mixture. In terms of the new regulation 8A, the Scottish Ministers may grant an authorisation, for a maximum period of one year, if certain conditions in relation to the seed are fulfilled. A preservation mixture may only be marketed in its region of origin.\nSchedule 3 to the principal Regulations is amended to provide for the particulars which are to be specified in an authorisation to market a preservation mixture (regulation 9).\nRegulations 15 and 16 of the principal Regulations are amended to include certain requirements for sampling of directly harvested preservation mixtures and sealing a package of seeds of a preservation mixture (regulations 5 and 6).\nRegulation 17 of, and Part II of Schedule 6 to, the principal Regulations are amended to include certain requirements for labelling a package of seeds of a preservation mixture (regulations 7 and 11).\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 2 of the principal Regulations to insert definitions of preservation mixture, collection site, crop-grown and directly harvested preservation mixture and source area.\nNo Business Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared for this instrument as it has no impact on the cost of business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/5/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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