The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Proposed Negative
Laid on: 6 December 2018
Sift end date: 8 January 2019

The SI makes minor, technical amendments to Northern Ireland EU derived legislation, relating to seed, propagating material and forest reproductive material to ensure operability after EU exit.

The SI does not introduce any new policies but simply ensures that the legislation continues to operate in the same way on exit day as it does now.  The amendments to the various Statutory Rules include changing existing references to “EU” to read “UK” and ensuring that cross references to EU Directives will continue to operate as they do now. The amendments will also allow a two year transitional period for seed and forest and fruit plant and reproductive material, during which material from the EU can still be marketed in Northern Ireland without additional checks and, in the case of seed and forest and fruit plant and reproductive material, without any requirement to be relabelled, in line with the overall UK market policy

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