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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1092",
  "legislation_title": "The Fodder Plant Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fodder-plant-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which amend the Fodder Plant Seeds Regulations 1985, implement article 2 of Commission Directive 87/120/EEC (OJ No. L49, 18.2.87, p.41) in so far as it amends Annex III of Council Directive 66/401/EEC (OJ No. 125, 11.7.66, p.2298/66) (OJ/SE 1965—66, p.132) (as amended) on the marketing of fodder plant seeds by providing that the maximum weight of a seed lot, set out in that Annex, from which a sample is to be drawn for certification shall not be exceeded by more than 5% (regulation 6(b)(ii)).\nThese Regulations also implement article 1 of Commission Directive 86/109/EEC (OJ No. L93, 8.4.86, p.21) in so far as it amends Council Directive 66/401/EEC by prohibiting the placing on the market in Member States seed ofVicia faba L. (partim) (field bean) of the Commercial seed category (regulation 2(2)(a)(iv)).\nThe other changes of substance made by these Regulations to the 1985 Regulations are—\n(1) the omission of provisions enabling seeds of field peas and field beans to be marketed as Certified Seed of the Third Generation;\n(2) the alteration of the isolation distances for field beans grown to produce Certified Seed of the Second Generation (regulation 2(5)(b)(ii);\n(3) the inclusion of a requirement that field pea crops must be isolated by 50 metres, throughout the whole of their growing period, from all other kinds of pea crops (regulation 2(5)(b)(i));\n(4) the inclusion of a requirement that a sample of field peas must be found to be free fromPseudomonas syringae p.v.pisi(pea bacterial blight) infection before they can be certified as Breeder’s Seed, Pre-basic Seed, Basic Seed or Certified Seed of the First Generation (regulation 2(5)(c)(ii)) and the inclusion of a marketing standard of freedom from pea bacterial blight for Certified Seed of the Second Generation (regulation 2(5)(d)); and\n(5) the inclusion of a requirement that a sample of seeds taken from a seed stream during processing for the purposes of an official examination shall be taken by an automatic sampling device approved by the Minister (regulation 2(6)(a)(i)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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