Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2002/3026
Year2002
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002, shall extend to Great Britain, and shall come into force on 1st January 2003.
  • (1) These Regulations shall be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of this regulation.(2) In these Regulations—
    • F15“the appropriate authority”—
      • (a) in regulations 7 to 9, 20(b) and Schedules 2 to 5, has the meaning given in regulation 7(11) ;
      • (b) in regulations 11, 13 and 14, has the meaning given in regulation 11(4) ;
      • (c) in regulations 16, 18 and 22, has the meaning given in regulation 16(1B) ;
      • (d) in regulation 25, has the meaning given in regulation 25(4) ;
    • F72“approved basic material” in relation to basic material approved by an appropriate authority means basic material which is approved in accordance with regulation 7;
    • “autochthonous” means, in relation to a stand or seed source, either
      • (a) that it has been continuously regenerated by natural regeneration, or
      • (b) that it has been regenerated artificially from—
        • (i) reproductive material collected in the same stand or seed source, or
        • (ii) from other stands or seed sources within close proximity meeting the descriptions in (a) or (b) (i) ;
    • F16authorised officer” means—
      • (a) a person authorised by the Commissioners to exercise their powers and execute their functions under these Regulations; ...
      • (aa) F93a person authorised by the Scottish Ministers to exercise their powers and execute their functions under these Regulations, and
      • (b) a person authorised by the Welsh Ministers to exercise their powers and execute their functions under these Regulations;
    • “basic material” means material from which reproductive material may be collected or produced and which is in the form of one of the types defined in paragraph (3) ;
    • “category” in respect of forest reproductive material means one of the categories listed in regulation 4(1) ;
    • “clonal mixture” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3) ;
    • “clone” is a type of basic material and has the meaning given it in paragraph (3) ;
    • “collecting” includes the taking of parts of plants, extraction of seed, and harvesting, and “collect”, “collection” and “collected” shall be construed accordingly;
    • Commissioners” refers to the Forestry Commissioners;
    • “contact details” means a person’s telephone number, if he has one, and, where he may be contacted by other telephonic or electronic communication, his fax number and/or email address;
    • F73“Council Decision 2008/971/EC” means Council Decision 2008/971/EC on the equivalence of forest reproductive material produced in third countries, as amended from time to time;
    • “crossing design” means the method by which individual trees used as female parents are pollinated, whether naturally or artificially, by one or more trees used as male parents;
    • the Directive” means Council Directive 1999/105/EC of 22nd December 1999 on the marketing of forest reproductive material
    • EC classification” refers, in respect of Populus spp., to the classification EC 1, EC 2, N1, N2, S1 or S2, each of which has the meaning given it in Schedule 9;
    • F74“EU-approved third countries” are Canada, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States of America;
    • F128the EU Plant Health Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament of the Council on protective measures against pests of plants, amending Regulations (EU) No 228/2013, (EU) No 652/2014 and (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 69/464/EEC, 74/647/EEC, 93/85/EEC, 98/57/EC, 2000/29/EC, 2006/91/EC and 2007/33/EC;
    • “forest reproductive material” means reproductive material of the tree species and artificial hybrids listed in Schedule 1;
    • “full-sibling” means progeny obtained from parents of family where the identified parent used as female is pollinated with the pollen of one other parent tree;
    • “genetically modified organism” has the meaning given to it in Article 2(1) and (2) of Council Directive 2001/18/EC, unless in reference to a requirement under regulation 7(4) for authorisation to have been given before 17th October 2002, when it has the meaning given it in Article 2(1) and (2) of Council Directive 90/220/EEC;
    • “half-sibling” means progeny obtained from parents of family...

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