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Removed(d) are considered important for their contribution to the conservation of biodiversity.

RemovedThe delegated acts referred to in the first subparagraph shall remove species and artificial hybrids from the list in Annex, I if they no longer fulfil any of the elements set out in the first subparagraph.

Removed4. This Regulation does not apply to the following:

Removed(a) plant reproductive material referred to in Article 2 of Regulation (EU) …/… [Office of Publications, please insert reference to Regulation on production and marketing of plant reproductive material];

Removed(b) propagating material of ornamental plants as defined in Article 2 of Directive 98/56/EC;

Removed(c) FRM produced for export to third countries;

Removed(d) FRM used for official testing, scientific purposes or selection work.

RemovedArticle 3 Definitions

RemovedFor the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

Removed(1) ‘forest reproductive material’ (‘FRM’) means cones, infructescenses, fruits and seeds intended for the production of aseed units, parts of plants and planting stock,stocks that belong to tree species and artificial hybrids thereof listed in Annex I to this Regulation and used for afforestation, reforestation, and other tree planting and direct seeding for any of the following purposes: [Am. 15]

Removed(a) wood and biomaterials production;

Removed(b) conservation of forest genetic resources and biodiversity conservation and enhancement; [Am. 16]

Removed(c) restoration of forest ecosystems and other wooded land, and supporting their functioning; [Am. 17]

Removed(ca) setting up or restoring agroforestry systems; [Am. 18]

Removed(d) climate adaptation;

Removed(e) climate mitigation;

Removed(f) conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources.

Removed(2) ‘afforestation’ means establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding of regional adapted tree species on land that, until then, was under a different land use implies a transformation of land use form non-forest to forest; [Am. 19]

Removed(3) ‘reforestation’ means re-establishment of forest through planting and/or deliberate seeding of regional adapted tree species on land classified as forest; [Am. 20]

Removed(3a) ‘agroforestry’ means the integration of trees on agricultural land without changing the classification of that land; [Am. 120]

Removed(4) ‘seed unit’ means cones, infructescenses, fruits and seeds intended for the production of a planting stock or for direct seeding; [Am. 21]

Removed(5) ‘planting stock’ means any plant or part of a plant used in plant propagation and comprises plants raised from seed units, from parts of plants, or from plants from natural regeneration;

Removed(6) ‘parts of plants’ means stem cuttings, leaf cuttings and root cuttings, explants or embryos used for micropropagation, buds, layers, roots, scions, sets and any other parts of a plant used for the production of a planting stock;

Removed(7) ‘production’ means all stages in the generation of the seedseeds, parts of plants and plants, the conversion from seed unit to seed, and the raising of plants from a and also those necessary to obtain an adequate planting stock, with a view for the respective FRM to be marketed; [Am. 22]

Removed(8) ‘seed source’ means the trees within ana defined area, from which seeda seed unit is collected; [Am. 23]

Removed(9) ‘stand’ means a delineated population of trees possessing sufficient uniformity in composition;

Removed(10) ‘seed orchard’ means a plantation of selected trees, where each tree is identified by a clone, family or provenance, which is isolated or managed to avoid or reduce pollination from outside sources, and managed to produce frequent, abundant and easily harvested crops of seed;

Removed(11) ‘parents of family(ies)’ means trees used as parents to obtain progeny by controlled or open pollination of one identified parent used as a female (‘mother tree’), with the pollen of one ‘father tree’, full sibling) or a number of identified or unidentified ‘father trees’ (half-sibling);

Removed(12) ‘clone’ means a group of individuals (ramets) derived originally from a single individual (ortet) by vegetative propagation, for example by cuttings, micropropagation, grafts, layers or divisions;

Removed(13) ‘clonal mixture’ means a mixture of identified clones in defined proportions;

Removed(14) ‘basic material’ means any of the following: seed source, stand, seed orchard, parents of family(ies), clone or clonal mixtures;

Removed(15) ‘unit of approval’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM that has been authorised by the competent authorities; [Am. 24]

Removed(16) ‘unit of notification’ means the entire area or individuals of basic material for the production of FRM intended for the purpose of the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources that has been notified to the competent authorities; [Am. 25]

Removed(17) ‘seed lot’ means a set of extracted and/or cleaned seeds collected from approved basic material and processed uniformly; [Am. 26]

Removed(18) ‘plant lot’ means a set of planting stock that has been grownplants that have been produced from a single seed lot or a set of vegetatively propagated planting stockplants which has been raisedhave been produced in a delineable area and processed uniformly; [Am. 27]

Removed(19) ‘lot numbercode’ means the identification numbercode of the seed lot or plant lot, as appropriate; [Am. 28]

Removed(20) ‘provenance’ means the place in which any stand of trees is growing;

Removed(21) ‘sub-species’ means a group within a species that has become somewhat phenotypically and genetically different from the rest of the group;

Removed(22) ‘region of provenance’ means, in regard to species or sub-species, the area or group of areas subject to sufficiently uniform ecological conditions, in which stands or seed sources showing similar phenotypic or genetic characteristics are found, taking into account altitudinal boundaries, where appropriate;

Removed(23) ‘autochthonous stand’ means a stand of native tree species which has been continuously regenerated either by natural regeneration or artificially from FRM collected in the same stand or stands of native tree species within close proximity;

Removed(24) ‘indigenous stand’ means an autochthonous stand or a stand raised artificially from seed, where the origin of this stand and the stand itself are located in the same region of provenance;

Removed(25) ‘origin’ means the following:

Removed(a) for an autochthonous seed source or stand, the place in which the trees are growing;

Removed(b) for a non-autochthonous seed source or stand, the place from which the seed or plants were originally introduced;

Removed(c) for a seed orchard, the places where its components were originally located, such as their provenances or other relevant geographical information;

Removed(d) for the parents of families, the places where their components were originally located, such as their provenances or other relevant geographical information;

Removed(e) for a clone, the origin is the place, where the ortet is or was initially located or selected;

Removed(f) for a clonal mixture, the origins are the places, where the ortets are or were initially located or selected;

Removed(26) ‘location of the basic material’ means the geographical area or geographical position(s) of the basic material as appropriate for each category of FRM;

Removed(27) ‘place of production of clones or clonal mixtures or parents of families’ means the place or exact geographical position, where the FRM was produced;

Removed(28) ‘foundation stock’ means a plant, group of plants, FRM, DNA stock or genetic information of the clone, or clones in case of clonal mixture, that serves as a reference material for the control of the identity of the clone(s);

Removed(29) ‘set’ means a stem cutting without roots;

Removed(30) ‘marketing’ means the following commercial actions conducted by a professional operator: sale, holding or offering for the purpose of sale or any other way of transferring, distribution, including dispatching, within, or import into the Union, whether free of charge or not, of FRM; [Am. 29]

Removed(31) ‘professional operator’ means any natural or legal person involved professionally, with the authorisation of the competent authorities, in one or more of the following activities, aimed at the commercial exploitation of the FRM: [Am. 30]

Removed(a) production, including growing, multiplying and maintaining of the FRM;

Removed(b) marketing of the FRM;

Removed(c) storage, collection, dispatching and processing of the FRM;

Removed(32) ‘competent authority’ means a central or regional authority of a Member State, or, where applicable, the corresponding authority of a third country, responsible for the organisation of official controls, registration of basic material, certification of FRM and other official activities concerning the production and marketing of FRM, or any other authority to which that responsibility has been conferred, in accordance with Union law;

Removed(33) ‘source-identified’ means a category of FRM derived from basic material consisting of either a seed source or stand located within a single region of provenance and which meets the requirements set out in Annex II;

Removed(34) ‘selected’ means a category of FRM derived from basic material consisting of a stand located within a single region of provenance, which has been phenotypically selected at the population level and which meets the requirements set out in Annex III;