Oil and Fibre Plant Seeds Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (S.S.I. No. 249 of 2000).

The amendments to the principal Regulations give effect to Council Directive 98/95/EC amending, as regards unofficial field inspections, directives in respect of the marketing of seeds and the common catalogue of varieties of vegetable plant species. These Regulations: (a) amend definitions in the principal Regulations, including the definitions of "marketing" and "official examination" (reg. 4); (b) include provisions in relation to marketing and marketing authorisation, tests and trials, seed as grown, selection work and other scientific purposes; and make consequential amendments to regulation 4 (reg. 5 and 6); (c) make provision in relation to the marketing of genetically modified oil and fibre plant seeds (reg. 6); (d) make provision in relation to clear indications for genetically modified varieties (reg. 7); and (e) amend Schedule 6 to make provision for the supply of information about imported seeds and amend provisions in respect of small packages (reg. 8).