The Seed, Plant Propagating Material and Forest Reproductive Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020

These Regulations are principally made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) and (3) of schedule 2 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16) in order to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. They do so by amending provisions contained in four SSIs concerning the marketing of agricultural seed, fruit and vegetative plant propagating material and forest reproductive material (“the Existing Exit SSIs”) that were made in anticipation of the United Kingdom withdrawing from the European Union in March 2019; because withdrawal was delayed until January 2020 and circumstances changed in the intervening period, many of the provisions in the Existing Exit SSIs had to be amended to ensure they would, on coming into force, have the desired effect.