Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables (Amendment) Regulations, 2021 (L.N. 366 of 2021)

These regulations amend the Seeds of Agricultural Plants and Vegetables Regulations,("the principal regulations"). The scope of these regulations is to transpose Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2021/415 of 8 March 2021 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC and 66/402/EEC in order to adapt to the evolution of scientific and technical knowledge, taxonomic groupsand names of certain species of seeds and weeds. Amends Schedule I to the principal regulations. 2. Certain regulations included in Schedule I are substituted. In schedule II the following items are amended: the footnote of Table 1.6; paragraph (b) of item 4 under Section I Cereals; Item C under Table 1.7 concerning crops to produce certified seed of hybrids of certain plants is amended at item 1 concerning varietal identity and varietal purity and at item 2 concerning the isolation distances among crops. Schedule III of the principal regulations is also amended at item A and item C of Section I Cereals, as well as at Table 1.17.