{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-regulations-2005/schedule-4/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2005/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Fodder Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seed-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Pests in the seed",
  "text": "(1) The seed must be practically free from any pests which reduce the usefulness and quality of the seed.\n(2) The seed must also comply with the requirements concerning GB quarantine pests, PFA quarantine pests and RNQPs provided for in implementing acts adopted pursuant to the EU Plant Health Regulation, as well as the measures adopted pursuant to Article 30(1) of that Regulation.\n(3) The presence of RNQPs on the seeds and the respective categories must comply with the requirements set out in the following table—\nRNQPs or symptoms caused by RNQPs\nPlants for planting (genus or species)\nThresholds for pre-basic seed\nThresholds for basic seed\nThresholds for certified seed\nClavibacter michiganensis ssp. insidiosus (McCulloch 1925) Davis et al. [CORBIN]\nLucerne\n0%\n0%\n0%\nDitylenchus dipsaci (Kuehn) Filipjev [DITYDI]\nLucerne\n0%\n0%\n0%",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 12 substituted (1.7.2020) by The Seed and Plant Material (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/165), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in sch. 4 para. 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.S.I. 2019/59, reg. 14(24)(b)(i) (as substituted by The Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(1)(b), 15(21)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in sch. 4 para. 12 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.S.I. 2019/59, reg. 14(24)(b)(ii) (as substituted by The Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/445), regs. 1(1)(b), 15(21)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 12 in force at 1.7.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/329/schedule/4/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:25:16.951299+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}