# The Seed Marketing (Heterogeneous Material) (Temporary Experiment) (England) Regulations 2023, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations—
“the 2011 Regulations” means the Seed Marketing Regulations 2011;
“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;
“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—
(a) identifiable on the bases set out in regulation 13(1), but insufficiently uniform to be a variety,
(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
(c) not a mixture of varieties;
“variety” has the meaning given by section 1(3) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/676/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-heterogeneous-material-temporary-experiment-england-regulations-2023/regulation-2
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