General UAE Legal Questions LawFederal Law No. 42 of 1992 Concerning the Production, Import and Handling Seeds and Kernels

Article (1) The following words and terms shall have the meaning hereby assigned to them unless the context otherwise requires: State : United Arab Emirates. Ministry : Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

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Federal Law of 1992 concerning the production, import and handling seeds and kernels 2 Competent Department : Shall mean the Agricultural Affairs Sector at the Ministry or any structural unit stemming therefrom. Competent Authority : The authority concerned entrusted with regulating the production, import, and trade of seeds and kernels in each Emirate of the United Arab Emirates. Seeds and Kernels : The plant part or parts which are used in the reproduction of various agricultural crops, by all commonly known types of reproduction. Reproduction Areas : The regions determined for the reproduction of seeds and kernels. Contract : The entity that is contracted with to produce seeds and kernels. Trading : Offer to sell, selling, storing, or transporting by any means of transportation.

Article (2) The competent Department shall coordinate with the competent Authority to recommend the approved types and varieties of agricultural seeds and tubers, their specifications, methods used for their propagation production, importation, circulation, preparation, usage and their advertising. The competent Department together with the competent authority shall specifically determine the following: 1. The conditions and technical contracting measure of propagation and production of agricultural seeds and tubers locally according to their types and varieties. 2. Areas of cultivation of agricultural seeds and tubers and their established conditions.

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Federal Law of 1992 concerning the production, import and handling seeds and kernels 3 3. Specifications of packs of agricultural seeds and tubers, their stickers and the containing data. 4. Conditions and measures of examining of agricultural seeds and reporting their validity, quality as well as the process of objection against the results of examinations and tests and the determination therein. 5. Specifications and conditions of garbling and preparing stations of seeds and tubers for circulation. 6. Precautionary measures shall be followed in regard to violated seeds and tubers to the provisions of this Law and the decisions implemented thereto.

Article (7) The employees assigned to follow up the implementation of the provisions of this law, the decisions issued in execution thereof, and who have been selected by a decision from the minister of justice in agreement with the minister of agriculture and fisheries and the competent authority shall be deemed to be as judicial detection inspectors. They are entitled to enter the places, which their activities are included within the provisions of this law, except the places allocated for residency, to ensure implementing its provisions and the decisions issued in execution thereof, and control of the violations; and the local authorities shall provide the necessary Facilities for those inspectors to carry out their mission.

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