(As published in PVP Gazette, Issue No. 87, March 2000)
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1998 No. 1025
PLANT BREEDERS' RIGHTS
The Plant Breeders' Rights (Farm Saved Seed) (Specification of Species and Groups) Order 1998
Made 8th April 1998 Laid before Parliament 9th April 1998 Coming into force 8th May 1998
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, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 9(2) and 48(l) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997(a), after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of persons likely to be substantially affected, hereby make the following Order:-
Title and commencement 1. This Order may be cited as the Plant Breeders' Rights (Farm Saved Seed) (Specification of Species and Groups) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 8th May 1998.
Specification of species and groups 2. The species and groups listed in the Schedule to this Order are specified for the purposes of section 9(2) of the Plant Varieties Act 1997.
(a) 1997 c.66; see section 49(l) for a definition of "the Ministers".
SCHEDULE (article 2)
FARM SAVED SEED-SPECIES AND GROUPS
Name Common Name
Fodder plants
Cicer arietinum L. Chickpea milkvetch Lupinus luteus L. Yellow lupin Medicago sativa L. Lucerne Pisum sativum L. (partim) Field pea Trifolium alexandrinum L. Berseem/Egyptian clover Trifolium resupinatum L. Persian clover Vicia faba Field bean Vicia sativa L. Common vetch
Cereals
Avena sativa Oats Hordeum vulgare L. Barley Oryza sativa L. Rice Phalaris canariensis L. Canary grass Secale cereale L. Rye X Triticosecale Wittm. Triticale Triticum aestivum L. emend. Fiori et Paol. Wheat Triticum durum Desf Durum wheat Triticum spelta L. Spell wheat
Potatoes
Solanum tuberosum Potatoes
Oil and fibre plants
Brassica napus L. (partim) Swede rape Brassica rapa L. (partim) Turnip rape Linum usitatissimum Linseed with the exclusion of flax