S.L. 433.25 чл. 2Scope.

(1) The scope of these regulations is to make provision to assure that any seeds of agricultural landraces and varieties produced and placed on the market in Malta, meets specified standards of quality.

(2) These regulations transpose Commission Directive 2008/ 62/EC and their purpose is to aid landraces and varieties which are naturally adapted to local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion to be grown and marketed even when they do not comply with the general requirements as regards the acceptance of varieties and the marketing of seeds and seed potatoes.