European Communities (Vegetable Seeds) Regulations, 1973

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 173/1973
• Year: 1973

S.I. No. 173 of 1973.
EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (VEGETABLE SEEDS) REGULATIONS, 1973.
I, MARK CLINTON, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act, 1972 (No. 27 of 1972), hereby make the following regulations :
	1 Short title and commencement	1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Vegetable Seeds) Regulations, 1973, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1973.
	2 Interpretation	2. In these Regulations—
"authorised officer" means an officer of the Minister authorised in writing by the Minister for the purposes of these Regulations;
"the Minister" means the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries;
"National Catalogue" has the meaning specified in Regulation 3(1);
"the Directive" means the Council directive No. 70/458/EEC1 as amended by the Council directives No. 71/162/EEC2, No. 72/274/ EEC3 and 72/418/EEC4;
1 OJ No. L225, 12 October 1970, p.7.
2 OJ No. L87, 17 April, 1971, p.24.
3 O.J No. L171, 29 July, 1972, p.37.
4OJ No. L287, 26 December, 1972, p.22.
any expression which has a particular meaning for the purposes of the Directive has that meaning for the purposes of these Regulations.
	3 National Catalogue	3. (1) The Minister shall maintain the national catalogue for the State required by the Directive (in these Regulations referred to as the National Catalogue).
(2) The first entries in the National Catalogue shall be the varieties included in the national list of vegetable varieties which, on the 31st day of December, 1972, stood prepared at the instance of the Minister and subsequent entries shall be effected in accordance with the Directive.
(3) There shall be included in the National Catalogue such particulars with regard to the varieties as the Minister considers proper, including, in relation to each variety, any particulars necessary for compliance with the Directive.
(4) Where a variety is included in the National Catalogue, any person shown in the Catalogue as responsible for the maintenance for conservation of the variety shall—
(a) allow an authorised officer to examine the production of the variety for conservation and all records relating to such production (including records relating to production of generations prior to basic seed),
(b) supply to an authorised officer, or allow an authorised officer to take, samples of the variety.
(5) Revocation of acceptance of a variety for inclusion in the National Catalogue and deletion of such variety from the Catalogue shall be effected by the Minister in accordance with the Directive.
	4 Certification and Checking	4. (1) The Minister shall be the official authority for the State for the certification of seed as basic and certified seed and the checking of seed as standard seed for the purposes of the Directive.
(2) Such certification and checking shall be restricted to seed of vegetables of which the variety has been accepted for inclusion in—
(a) the National Catalogue,
(b) the catalogue of another Member State corresponding to the National Catalogue, or
(c) the common catalogue.
	5 Marketing	5. (1) Vegetable seed shall not be marketed unless—
(a) in the case of seed produced in any of the Member States, it has been certified as basic seed or certified seed or checked as standard seed by the official authority of that State,
(b)...