Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

• “the 2011 Regulations” means the Seed Marketing Regulations 2011^f1;

• “the applicant” means a person applying for a licence in accordance with regulation 5;

• “the experiment” means the temporary experiment organised in accordance with these Regulations and complying with the purpose specified in regulation 21A of the 2011 Regulations^f2;

• “heterogeneous material” means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank which presents common phenotypic characteristics and has been developed by crossing multiple varieties of a plant species, with the resulting plants being genetically diverse and having varied characteristics;

• “lot” means one or more units of a single commodity, identifiable by its homogeneity of composition and origin, which form part of a consignment;

• “low-input agriculture” means systems of crop production managed with reduced use of external inputs, such as fertilisers and fuel, resulting in a more sustainable agricultural system;

• “marketing” has the meaning given by regulation 2 of the 2011 Regulations;

• “participant” means a person granted a licence to participate in the experiment referred to in regulation 3;

• “population” means heterogeneous material which, as a grouping, is—

  1. (a)

     identifiable on the bases set out in regulation 13(1), but insufficiently uniform to be a variety,

  2. (b)

     characterised by a high level of genetic and phenotypic diversity between individual reproductive units, so that the plant grouping is represented by the material as a whole and not by a small number of plants, and

  3. (c)

     not a mixture of varieties;

• “variety” has the meaning given by section 1(3) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997^f3.