Hard Brexit Impact Analysis

Page 15 of 106 Category If no agreement is reached: Consequence EU Document Agriculture Plant reproductive material Interested UK parties should submit the respective applications to the responsible official body of an EU 27 Member State in a timely manner before that date, in order to ensure that those varieties are also inserted in a timely manner in the respective Common Catalogues. EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF MARKETING OF SEEDS AND OTHER PLANT REPRODUCTIVE PROPAGATING MATERIAL Agriculture Plant reproductive material Varieties or basic material of forest plants included in the registry of United Kingdom only must be accepted by another Member State or supplier in another Member States in order for those varieties or material to continue to be allowed to be marketed in the EU after the withdrawal date. EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF MARKETING OF SEEDS AND OTHER PLANT REPRODUCTIVE PROPAGATING MATERIAL Agriculture Plant reproductive material Vine propagating material, Fruit propagating material, varieties or forest basic material may only be marketed throughout the Union once they are included in the national registry in one Member State or - in the case of ornamental propagating material – at least in a suppliers list of an EU 27 Member State. EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF MARKETING OF SEEDS AND OTHER PLANT REPRODUCTIVE PROPAGATING MATERIAL Agriculture Plant reproductive material Breeders should be aware that after the withdrawal date, the examination results have to stem from examinations in an EU 27 Member State for the variety to be included in the Common Catalogues or national registry. UK testing results received after the withdrawal date will not meet this criterion and be invalid. EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF MARKETING OF SEEDS AND OTHER PLANT REPRODUCTIVE PROPAGATING MATERIAL Agriculture Plant reproductive material Marketing of seed and propagating material: As of the withdrawal date imports of seed and propagating material from the UK are subject to the respective provisions of each Directive concerning recognition of equivalent requirements of third countries. EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF MARKETING OF SEEDS AND OTHER PLANT REPRODUCTIVE PROPAGATING MATERIAL Agriculture Plant variety rights As of the withdrawal date, the EU rules in the field of Plant Variety Rights no longer apply to the United Kingdom WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF UNION PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS Agriculture Plant variety rights As of the withdrawal date the Examination Offices in the United Kingdom will no longer have the possibility to participate in the technical verification of the maintenance of the protected varieties. WITHDRAWAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EU RULES IN THE FIELD OF UNION PLANT VARIETY RIGHTS