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The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2775), United Kingdom

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Details Details Year of Version 1993 Dates Adopted: December 1, 1993 Type of Text Implementing Rules/Regulations Subject Matter Plant Variety Protection Notes The notification by the United Kingdom to the WTO under article 63.2 of TRIPS states:
'The Regulations amend the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978 by replacing Schedule 3 with a new Schedule which specifies the reproductive and other material which must be delivered to the Controller when seeking grant of plant breeders' rights.'

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GB088: Plant Variety (Breeders' Rights), Regulations (Amendment), 10/11/1993, No. 2775

1993 No. 2775
PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS

The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made

10th November 1993

Laid before Parliament

10th November 1993

Coming into force

1st December 1993

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, acting jointly, as respects the United Kingdom, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 9(1) and (5), 36 and 38(1) of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Act 1964 1 as extended to Northern Ireland2 and the said Minister and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, as respects the Isle of Man, in exercise of the said powers as extended to the Isle of Man3, and in exercise of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st December 1993.

Revocations

2. The Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) Regulations 19904, the Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 19905 and the Plant Breeders' Rights (Amendment) Regulations 19926 are hereby revoked.

Amendment of principal Regulations

3. For Schedule 3 to the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978 7 (reproductive and other plant material to be delivered to the Controller) there shall be substituted the provisions of the Schedule to these Regulations.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 4th November 1993.

Gillian Shephard
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Scottish Office

8th November 1993

John Redwood
Secretary of State for Wales

4th November 1993

Patrick Mayhew
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

10th November 1993

Michael Howard
Secretary of State for the Home Department
(being the Secretary of State concerned
with matters relating to the Isle of Man)

Home Office
5th November 1993

Regulation 3

Regulation 12

SCHEDULE
"SCHEDULE 3
REPRODUCTIVE AND OTHER PLANT MATERIAL TO BE
DELIVERED TO THE CONTROLLER

PART I
CEREALS

Quantity

1.-
(1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of ears of seed shall be delivered:-

For a wheat, barley or oat variety

275 ears and 6 kilograms of seed

For a rye variety

5 kilograms of seed

For a maize variety

500 grams of seed of the commercial hybrid and 200 grams of seed of each of the parents and parental lines of the commercial hybrid

For a triticale variety

4 kilograms of seed

For an F1 hybrid variety of wheat

275 ears from the final cross, 8.5 kilograms of seed from the final cross and 100 ears of each parent

(2) Attached to each ear there shall be a minimum of 25 centimetres of straw.
(3) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered such reproductive and other plant material in such quantity and of such description and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.

Packing

2. The ears shall be packed in bundles of not more than 100, lightly wrapped, in a stiff-sided container. The seeds shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand mechanical damage during transit due to handling.

Quality

3.-
(1) The seed shall comply with the following standards:-
(a) Wheat, Barley, Oats and Rye

Max no. of other seeds or structures in a sample of 500g

Kind

Min germination (% by number of pure seeds)

Min analytical purity (% by weight)

Max moisture content (% by weight)

Max loose smut infection (% by number)

All other species

Other cultivated cereal species

All species other than cultivated cereals

Wild oats (Avena fatua, Avena sterilis or Avena ludoviciana) and darnel (Lolium temulentum)

Wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) and Corn Cockle (Agrostemma githago)

Ergot (pieces)

Wheat,

85

98

16

0.5

10

7

7

0

3

3

Barley and Oats

Rye

85

98

16

-

10

7

7

0

3

3

(b) Maize

Min germination (% by number of pure seeds)

Min analytical purity (% by weight)

Max no. of seeds of other plant species in a sample of 250 g

90

98

0

(c) Triticale

The minimum germination by number of pure seeds shall be 85%. The seed shall not be affected by harmful organisms and must originate from the growing period immediately preceding the tests.

(2) The seed shall be free from insects.

Dressings and Treatments

4. The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment.
PART II
POTATOES

Quantity

1.-
(1) During the year beginning with the making of the application 200 seed tubers shall be delivered; these seed tubers shall be from stocks grown in Scotland or Northern Ireland or the English counties of Northumberland (excluding the districts of Blyth Valley and Wansbeck) and Cumbria (excluding the districts of Barrow-in-Furness and South Lakeland).
(2) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered seed tubers taken from stocks grown in any of the places specified in sub-paragraph 1 (1) above in such quantity and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.
(3) The applicant shall arrange for the growing in the United Kingdom of a plot of at least 2,000 plants of the potato variety to be observed under normal conditions during each of the seasons following the delivery of the seed tubers.

Packing

2. The seed tubers shall be securely packed in new sacks or other new containers which are capable of withstanding the hazards that may be encountered by perishable produce during transit. The packing material shall be adequate in quantity and quality to protect the tubers from low temperature which may cause chilling or frosting and from damage due to handling.

Grading and Condition

3. The seed tubers shall be graded so as to be capable of being retained by meshes of a riddle each measuring 35 mm square and passed by meshes of a riddle each measuring 50 mm square. The seed tubers shall be in sound condition and not be visibly unfit for planting through damage due to handling or attack by any insect, pest or disease or any other condition which would impair their subsequent growth. The seed tubers shall be reasonably free from soil.

Dressings and Treatments

4. The seed tubers shall not have been treated with a fungicide, pesticide or sprout inhibitor.

Health

5.-
(1) The land on which the seed tubers have been produced shall be land which:-
(a) is not deemed for the purpose of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 19938 or the Plant Health (Northern Ireland) Order 19939 to be land on which wart disease of potatoes (Synchytrium endobioticum (Schilb.) (Perc.)) is present;
(b) is not declared for the purposes of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 199310 to be land on which potato cyst eelworm (Globodera rostochiensis (Woll) Mulvey and Stone and Globodera pallida (Stone) Mulvey and Stone) is present;
(c) is not land on which the occupier has been served with a notice under the Plant Health Order (Northern Ireland) 199311 requiring him to adopt measures for the prevention of the spread of potato cyst eelworm as specified by the notice; and
(d) is land which has not at any time been used for growing potatoes during the period of five years immediately preceding the planting of the crop from which the seed tubers are produced.
(2) The seed tubers shall be accompanied by a certificate issued by as the case may be the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, The Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department or the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland stating:-
(a) the seed tubers are the produce of a crop grown on land not known to be infected by wart disease of potatoes or infested by potato cyst eelworm;
(b) the seed tubers are the produce of a crop which was inspected during the growing season and deemed on visual examination to be free from infection with tobacco veinal necrosis virus and to contain not more than the following tolerances for other diseases and impurities-
(i) 0.05% of rogues, undesirable variations, wildings and bolters;
(ii) 0.02% with leaf roll or severe mosaic;
(iii) 0.20% of plants with mild mosaic;
(iv) 1% of plants with blackleg.
(c) the seed tubers were found on visual examination to be free from signs of wart disease of potatoes; and
(d) the seed crop from which the tubers were produced was not so affected by any other disease or pest as to render it unsuitable for seed purposes.
PART III
FODDER PLANTS

Quantity

1.-
(1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of seed shall be delivered:-

For a ryegrass variety

1 kilogram

For a timothy variety

500 grams

For a cocksfoot variety

1 kilogram

For a tall fescue variety

1 kilogram

For a meadow fescue variety

1 kilogram

For a red fescue variety

500 grams

For a velvet bent variety

1 kilogram

For a red top variety

1 kilogram

For a creeping bent variety

1 kilogram

For a brown top variety

1 kilogram

For a wood meadowgrass variety

1 kilogram

For a swamp meadowgrass variety

1 kilogram

For a smooth-stalked meadowgrass variety

1 kilogram

For a rough-stalked meadowgrass variety

1 kilogram

For a lucerne variety

1 kilogram

For a red clover variety

1 kilogram

For a white clover variety

500 grams

For a lupin variety

4 kilograms

For a fenugreek variety

45 grams

For a fodder kale variety

1 kilogram

For a swede variety

100 grams

For a festulolium variety

2 kilograms

For a sainfoin variety

3 kilograms

For a birdsfoot trefoil variety

750 grams

(2) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered such reproductive and other plant material in such quantity and of such description and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.

Packing

2. The seed shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand damage during transit due to handling.

Quality

3. The seed shall comply with the following standards:-

Kind

Min germination (% by number of pure seeds or pure pellets)(a)(b)

Maximum hard seed content (% by number of pure seeds or pure pellets)(a)

Minimum analytical purity (% by weight)

Maximum content of seeds of other plant species (% by weight)

Perennial ryegrass

86

-

96

1.5

Other ryegrasses

82

-

96

1.5

Timothy

86

-

96

1.5

Cocksfoot

86

-

90

1.5

Tall fescue

86

-

95

1.5

Meadow fescue

86

95

1.5

Red fescue (including chewings fescue)

82

90

1.5

Red top

80

-

90

2.0

Velvet bent, creeping bent and brown top

75

-

90

2.0

Meadowgrasses

75

-

85

2.0

Red clover

80

20

97

1.5

White clover

80

40

97

1.5

Lucerne

80

40

97

1.5

Blue lupin

75

20

98

0.5

Other lupins

80

20

98

0.5

Fenugreek

80

-

95

1.0

Fodder kale

86

-

98

1.0

Swede

86

-

98

1.0

Festulolium

82

-

96

1.5

Sainfoin

75

20

95

1.5

Birdsfoot trefoil

75

40

95

1.5

(a) Up to the maximum content indicated, hard seeds present shall be considered as seeds capable of germination.

(b) All fresh and healthy seeds which do not germinate after pre-treatment shall be considered as seeds which have germinated.

4. The seeds shall also comply with the following standards where appropriate:

Maximum permitted content of seed impurities (by number or as a percentage by weight)

Kind

Weight of sample for determination of foreign seeds by number (gms)

Wild oat or dodder No.

Rumex spp. (docks and sorrels) excluding R. acetosella (sheep's sorrel) and R. martimus (golden dock) No.

Blackgrass %

Couchgrass %

Melilotus spp.%

Max. content of any one other plant species %

Ryegrasses(a)

60

0(b)

20

0.3

0.5

-

1.0

Timothy

10

0(b)

5

0.3

0.3

-

1.0

Cocksfoot

30

0(b)

10

0.3

0.3

-

1.0

Tall fescue

50

0(b)

20

0.3

0.5

-

1.0

Meadow fescue(c)

50

0(b)

20

0.3

0.5

-

1.0

Red fescue (including chewings fescue)

30

0(b)

10

0.3

0.5

-

1.0

Red top

5

0(b)

2

0.3

0.3

-

1.0

Velvet bent, creeping

5

0(b)

2

0.3

0.3

-

1.0

bent and brown top

Meadowgrasses

5

0(b)

2

0.3

0.3

-

1.0(d)

Red clover

50

0

20

-

-

0.3

1.0

White clover

20

0

10

-

-

0.3

1.0

Lucerne

50

0

20

-

-

0.3

1.0

Blue Lupin(e)

1000

0

20

-

-

0.3

0.3(f)

Other lupins(e)

1000

0

20

-

-

0.3

0.3(f)

Fodder kale

100

0(b)

20

-

-

-

0.5

Swede

100

0(b)

20

-

-

-

0.5

Festulolium

60

0(b)

20

0.3

0.5

-

1.0

Sainfoin

600

0

2

0.3

-

-

1.0

Birdsfoot trefoil

50

0

2

0.3

-

-

1.0

(a) In perennial ryegrass awned ryegrass seeds shall not exceed 1% by weight in seeds of a variety known not to produce seeds with awns.

(b) I seed of dodder in a sample of the size specified in column 2 shall not be regarded as an impurity if a second sample of the same weight is free from dodder.

(c) In meadow fescue there shall be no more than a total of 20 seeds of rye grass in a sample of the size specified in column 2.

(d) In meadowgrasses a maximum of 0.8% by weight of seeds of other meadowgrasses shall not be regarded as an impurity.

(e) In lupins the percentage by number of bitter lupin seeds in sweet varieties shall not exceed 3.0 and the percentage by number of seeds of another colour shall not exceed 2.0 in bitter lupins and 1.0 in other lupins.

(f) In lupins the presence of a maximum of 0.5% by weight in total of seeds of other lupins, Hungarian, common or hairy vetch, field pea and field bean shall not be regarded as an impurity.

Dressings and Treatments

4. The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment.
PART IV
OIL AND FIBRE PLANTS

Quantity

1.-
(1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of seed shall be delivered:-

For a flax or linseed variety

1.5 kilograms

For an oenothera variety

6 grams

For a swede rape including oilseed rape variety

1 kilogram

For a white mustard variety

1 kilogram

For a brown or black mustard variety

1 kilogram

For a coriander variety

500 grams

For a borage variety

20 grams

For a sunflower variety

1 kilogram and 5,000 seeds of each parental line and each restorer line

For a turnip rape variety

1 kilogram

Packing

2. The seed shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand damage during transit due to handling.

Quality

3.-
(1) The seed shall comply with the following standards:-

Maximum content by number of seeds of other plant species in a sample +of the following weight:

Swede rape including oilseed rape

- 100 grams

Flax and linseed

- 150 grams

White mustard

- 200 grams

Brown and black mustard

- 40 grams

Sunflower

- 1,000 grams

Analytical Purity

Turnip rape

- 70 grams

Kind

Minimum germination (% of pure seed)

Minimum analytical purity (% by weight)

Maximum content seed of other plant species (% by weight)

Other plant species

Wild Oat (Avena fatua, A. ludoviciana, A. sterilis)

Dodder (Cuscuta spp.)

Wild Radish (Raphanus Raphanistrum)

Rumex spp (docks and sorrels) excuding R. acetosella (sheep's sorrel) and R. maritimus (golden dock)

Black grass (Alopecurus myosuroides)

Lolium remotum

Swede rape including

85

98

0.3

-

0

0

10

5

-

-

Oilseed rape

Turnip rape

85

98

0.3

-

0

0(a)

10

5

-

-

Flax

92

99

-

15

0

0

-

-

4

2

Linseed

85

99

-

15

0

0

-

-

4

2

Oenothera

85

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

White mustard

85

98

0.3

-

0

0(a)

10

5

-

-

Brown and Black mustard

85

98

0.3

-

0

0

10

5

-

-

Coriander

80

95

0

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Borage

75

98

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Sunflower

85

98

-

5

0

0

-

-

-

-

(a) One seed of dodder in a sample of the prescribed weight shall not be regarded as an impurity where a second sample of the same weight is free from any seeds of dodder.

(2) The seed shall be of a satisfactory state of health as far as seed-borne organisms and diseases affecting the seeds are concerned. In particular the seed shall not exceed the following standards:-

Harmful Organisms

Maximum percentage by number of seeds contaminated by harmful organisms (total per column)

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (maximum number of sclerotia or fragments of sclerotia in a sample of the weight specified in column 4 of Schedule 3)

Kind

Botrytis spp.

Alternaria spp., Phoma exigua var. linicolaColletotrichum lini, Fusarium spp.

Swede rape and Turnip

Rape including Oilseed

-

-

5

Rape

Flax & Linseed

5

5(a)

-

White mustard

-

-

5

Sunflower

5

-

10

(a) In flax the maximum percentage by number of seeds contaminated by Phoma exigua var. linicola shall not exceed 1%.

Dressings and Treatments

4. The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment.
PART V
VEGETABLES (including Field Beans and Field Peas)

Quantity

1.-
(1) During the year beginning with the making of the application the following amounts of seed shall be delivered:-

For a pea variety (including a field pea variety)

3 kilograms

For a French bean variety

4 kilograms

For a runner bean variety

11 kilograms

For a broad bean variety

23 kilograms

For a field bean variety

11 kilograms

For a lettuce variety

115 grams

For a celery or celeriac variety

10 grams

For a marrow variety

230 grams

For a Brussels sprout variety

125 grams

For a cabbage variety

125 grams

For a cauliflower variety

125 grams

For a turnip variety

150 grams

For a tomato variety

11 grams

For a beetroot variety

450 grams

(2) During each of the immediately succeeding years until the completion of the tests and trials there shall be delivered such reproductive and other plant material in such quantity and of such description and quality as shall appear to the Controller to be necessary or desirable for the proper completion of the tests and trials.

Packing

2. The seed shall be packed in a suitable container of sufficient strength to withstand damage during transit due to handling.

Kind

Minimum germination (% by number of pure seeds)

Minimum analytical purity (% by weight)

Max. content of seeds of other plant species (% by weight)

Peas (including field peas)

80

98

0.1

French Beans

75

98

0.1

Runner Beans

80

98

0.1

Broad Beans

80

98

0.1

Field Beans

85

98

0.5

Lettuce

75

95

0.5

Celery and Celeriac

70

97

1.0

Marrows

75

98

0.1

Brussels Sprouts

75

97

1.0

Cabbages

75

97

1.0

Cauliflowers

70

97

1.0

Turnip

80

97

1.0

Tomatoes

75

97

0.5

Beetroot

70

97

0.5

Health

4. The seeds shall be of a satisfactory state of health in so far as seed-borne diseases and organisms affecting the seeds are concerned.

Dressings and Treatments

5. The seed shall not have been subjected to any fungicidal or insecticidal treatment and shall not be pelleted.
PART VI
TOP FRUIT AND ROOTSTOCKS

Quantity

1.-
(1) The following shall be delivered:
(2) Apples
Eight trees on M9 rootstocks, not less than two and not more than three years old. Alternatively budwood or graftwood sufficient to produce fifteen trees.
(3) Pears
Three trees on Quince A rootstock, double-worked where necessary. The trees shall be not less than two and not more than three years old. Alternatively, if the Controller shall so allow, scion or bud wood sufficient to produce four trees may be delivered instead of the three trees as mentioned above.
(4) Plums and Damsons
Three trees on St. Julien A rootstocks shall be delivered. The trees shall not be less than two and not more than three years old. Alternatively, if the Controller shall so allow, scion or bud wood sufficient to produce four trees may be delivered instead of the three trees as mentioned above.
(5) Cherries
Three trees on F12/1 or Colt rootstocks. The trees shall be not less than two and not more than three years old.
(6) Apple rootstocks, Pear rootstocks, Plum and Damson rootstocks, Cherry rootstocks and Quince rootstocks.
Twenty-five well-rooted rootstocks of not less than 7mm in diameter selected from the stool or layer bed.

Health

2.-
(1) Complete trees and rootstocks
(a) The trees and rootstocks shall not show symptoms of any virus disease.
(b) The trees and rootstocks shall be healthy. They shall not be lacking in vigour, or affected by any pests or diseases.
(2) Scion or bud wood or graftwood

Scion or bud wood or graftwood shall be the produce either of a tree of the variety growing on its own roots or of a tree of the variety which satisfies the requirements set out in paragraph 2(1)(a) and (b) above.

PART VII
SOFT FRUIT

Quantity

1.-
(1) The following shall be delivered:
(2) Black Currants
Twelve visually healthy two-year old bushes.
(3) Gooseberries
Five visually healthy two-year old bushes.
(4) Raspberries
Forty visually healthy canes.
(5) Rubus (other than raspberries)
Six visually healthy young plants.
(6) Strawberries
Forty visually healthy plants.
(7) Red Currants
Four vigorous healthy plants with at least three strong shoots. The plants shall not be more than two years old.
PART VIII
RHUBARB

Quantity

1. Four plants of the parent stock sufficient to provide 12 single bud roots.

Health

2. The plant material shall be visibly healthy and shall not be lacking in vigour or affected by pests or diseases.
PART IX
HOPS

Quantity

1. Six one year bedded sets shall be delivered.

Health

2.-
(a) The sets shall not show symptoms of any virus disease.
(b) The sets shall be healthy. They shall not be lacking in vigour or affected by pests or diseases.
PART X
CONIFERS AND TAXADS

Quantity

Four visually healthy vegetatively reproduced trees or shrubs typical of the variety, each at least two but not more than five years old, shall be delivered.
PART XI
TREES, SHRUBS AND WOODY CLIMBERS

Quantity

There shall be delivered, in the numbers indicated in respect of varieties of the genera or species specified below, visually healthy, vegetatively reproduced trees, shrubs, or woody climbers, as the case may be, typical of the variety and each at least two but not more than four years old.

Genera or species

Number of trees, shrubs or woody climbers to be delivered

Calluna Salisb.

12

Daboecia D. Don

12

Erica carnea L., Erica ciliarisa L.,

Erica cinerea L., Erica x darleyensis Bean,

Erica mackaiana Bab., Erica mediterranea Hort.,

Erica x praegeri Ostenf., Erica tetralix L.,

Erica vagans L., Erica x watsonii Benth.,

Erica williamsii Druce

12

Brachyglottis Forst. & Forst.

5

Clianthus puniceus (G. Don) Sol. ex Lindl.

5

Coprosma Forst

5

Cordyline australis (Forst.) Endl.

Cordyline banksii Hook., Cordyline indivisa (Forst.) Steud.,

Cordyline kaspar W.R.B. Oliv., Cordyline pumilio Hook. f.

Corokia A. Cunn.

5

Corynocarpus laevigata J. R. Forst et G. Forst.

5

Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq.

5

Griselinia littoralis Raoul.

Griselinia lucida Forst. f.

5

Hoheria A. Cunn.

5

Leptospermum ericoides A. Rich.

Leptospermum sinclairii Kirk

5

Lophomyrtus Burret.

5

Melicope simplex A. Cunn.

Melicope ternata J.R. Forst. et G. Forst.

5

Meryta sinclairii (Hook. f.) Seem

5

Metrosideros albiflora Soland. ex Gaertn.

Metrosideros carminea Oliv., Metrosideros colensoi Hook. f.,

Metrosideros diffusa Forst. f., Metrosideros excelsus Sol. ex Gaertn.,

Metrosideros kermadecensis Oliv., Metrosideros parkinsonii Buch.,

Metrosideros perforata (Forst. & Forst. f), Metrosideros robustus A. Cunn.,

Metrosideros scandens (Forst. et Forst. f.) Druce.,

Metrosideros umbellatus Cav.

5

Myrsine australis (A. Rich.) Allan

Myrsine chathamica F. Muell., Myrsine coxii Cockayne,

Myrsine divaricata A. Cunn., Mysine kermadecensis Cheesem.

Myrsine montana Hook f., Myrsine nummularia Hook. f.,

Myrsine oliveri Allan, Myrsine salicina Heward

5

Parahebe W.R.B. Oliv.

5

Pseudopanax chathamicus T. Kirk

Pseudopanax crassifolius (Sol. ex. A. Cunn.),

Pseudopanax discolor T. Kirk, Pseudopanax edgerleyi C. Koch.,

Pseudopanax ferox T. Kirk, Pseudopanax gilliesii T. Kirk,

Pseudopanax lessonii (D.C.), Pseudopanax lineare (Hook. f.) K Koch.

5

Weinmannia racemosa L. f.

Weinmannia silvicola Sol. ex A. Cunn

5

Erica arborea L., Erica australis L.,

Erica lusitanica Rudolfi, Erica scoparia L.,

Erica terminalis Salisb., Erica x veitchii Bean

4

Menziesia Sm.

4

Andromeda L.

3

Buxus L.

3

Caryopteris Bunge

3

Cassiope D. Don

3

Ceratostigma Bunge excluding C. plumbaginoides Bunge

3

x Gaulnettya W. J. Marchant

3

Gaultheria Kalm ex L.

3

Helianthemum Mill.

3

Lavendula L.

3

Pernettya Gaudich

3

Ruta L.

3

Salvia officinalis L.

3

Sarcococca Lindl. excluding S. saligna Muell.

3

Teucrium fruticans L.

3

Vaccinium L. excluding V. corymbosum L.

3

Vinca major L.

3

Vinca minor L.

3

All others not specified above

2

PART XII
DECORATIVES

Quantity

1.-
(1) The following shall be delivered:
(2) Carnations
(a) Border carnations and pinks
Ten visually healthy young plants, typical of the variety.
(b) Perpetual flowering carnations
Seventy-five unrooted, visually healthy cuttings, each furnished with at least four but not more than five clearly visible internodes.
(3) Perennial Chysanthemums
(a) Year round varieties
Fifty visually healthy cuttings of normal commercial standard.
(b) Other varieties
Twenty-five visually healthy cuttings of normal commercial standard.
(4) Dahlias
Four plants of each disbudded variety and seven plants of each dwarf bedding variety shall be delivered. The plants shall be typical of the variety and young, visually healthy, green plants.
(5) Perennial Delphiniums
Six well-rooted cuttings, or fifteen young plants ex-microprop.
(6) Freesias
Twenty-five visually healthy corms of flowering size, typical of the variety.
(7) Gladioli
Twelve visually healthy corms of flowering size, typical of the variety, shall be delivered each year.
(8) Narcissi
Ten visually healthy single nosed bulbs, typical of the variety.
(9) Rhododendrons
(a) Varieties to be flowered outdoors
Three plants each with at least three flower buds.
(b) Pot plant varieties
Thirty plants, twice pinched.
(10) Roses
In the case of a miniature variety six trees, in the case of a bush variety four trees, in the case of a shrub variety three trees and in the case of a climbing variety or ground cover variety two trees. The trees shall be first quality visually healthy maiden trees typical of the variety. If the Controller is satisfied that maiden trees cannot be supplied, two-year-old trees may be delivered.
(11) Herbaceous perennials
Four visually healthy vegetatively reproduced plants typical of the variety, each one year old.
(12) Cymbidiums
One mature plant in full flower.
(13) Pelargoniums
Ten rooted or unrooted cuttings.
(14) Streptocarpus
Five full grown plants.
(15) Lilies.
Ten visually healthy bulbs of flowering size.
(16) Elatior begonias
Thirty healthy young plants with no visible evidence of flower buds. The plants shall not have been treated with a growth regulator.
(17) Saintpaulia
Twenty healthy young plants.
(18) Nerine
Fifteen dormant bulbs.
(19) Poinsettia
Ten rooted cuttings.
(20) Cacti
Twenty uprooted cuttings.
(21) Gerbera
Twelve young plants of normal commercial standard.
(22) Kalanchoe
Twenty young plants, not cut back, in peat blocks.
(23) Impatiens
Twenty young plants, of good commercial quality, not cut back, in peak blocks.
(24) Euphorbia milii
Twenty, three month old plants.
(25) Scaevola aemula
Twenty young plants.
(26) Osteospermum
Twenty young plants, of good commercial quality, not cut back, in peak blocks.
(27) Galtonia candicans
Six visually healthy bulbs.
(28) Agapanthus
Four visually healthy plants.
(29) Cheiranthus
Twenty young plants.
(30) Erysimum
Twenty young plants.
(31) Festuca ovina Glauca
Four young plants.
(32) Petunia
Ten grams of seed.
(33) Trifolium arvense
Twenty young plants.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Plant Breeders' Rights Regulations 1978.
Schemes having been made to enable Plant Breeders' Rights to be granted in respect of sainfoin, birdsfoot trefoil, tomatoes, quince rootstock, herbaceous perennials, trees, shrubs and woody climbers, and miscellaneous ornamentals, Schedule 3 has been superseded by a new Schedule which specifies the reproductive and other material which must be delivered to the Controller when an application is made for a grant of plant breeders' rights in respect of these species.

1 1964 c.14; section 38(1) (as amended by S.I. 1978/272) contains a definition of "the Ministers" relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made.

4 S.I. 1990/1592.

7 S.I. 1978/294; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1982/1101, 1985/1092.

8 S.I. 1993/1320.

10 S.I. 1993/1320.

11 S.R. 1993/256.


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