# The Seed Marketing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Regulation 3: Interpretation of other terms

Extent: N.I.

(1) For the purposes of these Regulations—
(a) “the Act” means the Seeds Act (Northern Ireland) 1965;
(b) the “Common Catalogue” is the catalogue provided for in Council Directive 2002/53/EC on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species and in Council Directive 2002/55/EC on the marketing of vegetable seed;
(b1) “country granted equivalence” means a country that has been granted equivalence under Council Decision 2003/17/EC on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries;
(b2) “Crown Dependency” means any of the Channel islands or the Isle of Man;
(c) the “Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs in Northern Ireland;
(d) the “NI Variety List” means the list of agricultural crop varieties prepared and published in accordance with the Seeds (Variety Lists) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020;
(e) “the Tribunal” means the Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal established by the Plant Varieties Act 1997 ;
(f) “wild oat” means plants of the species Avena fatua, Avena sterilis and Avena ludoviciana.
(2) In these Regulations all references to—
(a) Council Directive 2002/54/EC on the marketing of beet seed ;
(b) Council Directive 66/402/EEC on the marketing of cereal seed ;
(c) Council Directive 66/401/EEC on the marketing of fodder plant seed ;
(d) Council Directive 2002/57/EC on the marketing of seed of oil and fibre plants ;
(e) Council Directive 2002/55/EC on the marketing of vegetable seed ;
(f) Commission Directive 2008/62/EC providing for certain derogations for acceptance of agricultural landraces and varieties which are naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion and for marketing of seed and seed potatoes of those landraces and varieties ;
(g) Commission Directive 2009/145/EC providing for certain derogations, for acceptance of vegetable landraces and varieties which have been traditionally grown in particular localities and regions and are threatened by genetic erosion and of vegetable varieties with no intrinsic value for commercial crop production but developed for growing under particular conditions and for marketing of seed of those landraces and varieties ;
(h) Commission Directive 2010/60/EU providing for certain derogations for marketing of fodder plant seed mixtures intended for use in the preservation of the natural environment ; and
(i) Council Decision 2003/17/EC on the equivalence of field inspections carried out in third countries on seed-producing crops and on the equivalence of seed produced in third countries ;
are references to those instruments as amended from time to time.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/244/regulation/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-3
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