The need to adapt the specific legislation on the control and certification of cereal seed to Commission Directive 95 /6/EC of 20 March amending the Annexes to Directive 66 /402/EEC of the European Parliament and of the Council Council, concerning the marketing of cereal seed, requires the amendment of the Technical Regulation on the Control and Certification of Cereal Seeds, approved by the Order of 1 July 1986,

In its virtue, I have:

Single item.

The Technical Regulation on the Control and Certification of Cereal Seeds approved by Order of 1 July 1986 and last modified by the Order of 5 May 1993 is amended in the following terms: expose:

1. In Chapter II-seed categories-paragraph 3.5, first subparagraph, the following shall be added after the word rye: "except for their hybrids".

2. In Chapter II of Chapter II of this Regulation, the following wording shall be added:

" 3.8 Certified seed of hybrid rye varieties. Only certified seed shall be declared as the basic seed for which the results of the official ex-post control of officially obtained samples have been taken into account during the growing season of the crops for the production of seed for which certification is requested, in order to determine that such basic seed complies with the requirements laid down in this Regulation with regard to the identity and purity of the characteristics of the seed its components, including male sterility.

Where appropriate, certified seed shall be produced in a mixed culture consisting of a female component without male activity and a male component which restores male fertility. "

3. In its annex number 1-requirements of the production processes-:

(a) In the third subparagraph, second paragraph, the following shall be added after the word rye: "except for their hybrids". The following shall also be inserted after the second paragraph: " In the production of seed of hybrid varieties of rye, the crop must comply with the following requirements concerning the distances from the sources of neighbouring pollen, which may result in unwanted pollinations:

For base seed production, if male sterility is used, 1,000 meters; if male sterility is not used, 600 meters.

For certified seed production, 500 meters. "

(b) In the fourth subparagraph, first paragraph, the following shall be added after the word rye: "except for their hybrids". The following shall also be inserted after the third subparagraph: ' In the production of seed of hybrid varieties of rye, the crop shall have a sufficient degree of identity and purity as regards the characteristics of its omposers, including male sterility.

The crop must also meet the following requirements and conditions:

1) The number of plants of the cultivated species which, as may be appreciated, does not meet the conditions required for the components shall not exceed:

One for every 30 square meters dedicated to the production of base seed.

One for every 10 square meters dedicated to certified seed production; in official field inspections, this rule will only apply to female components.

2. For basic seed, if the male sterility is used, the sterility rate of the component without male activity shall be at least 98 per 100. "

4. In its Annex number 2-seed requirements-after the end of the fourth paragraph of observations, the following shall be added: ' for non-hybrid rye varieties. For hybrid varieties it shall be less than one in 500 grams for base seed and less than four grams for certified seed. The presence of five sclerocios or shards of sclerotia in a sample of 500 grams shall be deemed to conform to the standards, provided that a second sample of the same weight contains at most four sclerotia or fragments thereof. '

Final disposition.

This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Madrid, June 27, 1995.

SERNA AGENT