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Publication - Consultation paper

Marketing of Organic Heterogeneous Material (OHM): consultation results

Published
20 June 2024
Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Topic
Environment and climate change, Farming and rural
ISBN
9781836014119

Consultation results on the proposed legislative options and scope of marketing organic heterogenous material (OHM) in Scotland.

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Legislation options & scope results

Figure 2: Legislative option results
This is a horizontal bar chart showing the results of respondent legislative options, broken down by Implementing a permanent change (77%), Maintaining the status quo (17%) and Implementing a temporary experiment (6%).

The majority of respondents (77%) supported implementing a permanent change. This option would introduce secondary legislation that will permit the regulation, production and marketing of plant reproductive material of an organic and heterogeneous nature in Scotland.

A smaller group of respondents (17%) support maintaining the status quo, resulting in no amendments to domestic legislation. Under this option, producers of OHM have no legal means by which to market their material with the UK.

A minority of respondents (6%) support implementing a temporary experiment. Under this option, legislation would be created to set out the terms and conditions of a temporary experiment, likely to run for seven years. The temporary experiment would allow for a general license to be issued to participants taking part in the temporary experiment.

Figure 3: Legislative scope results
This is a horizontal bar chart showing the results of respondent legislative scope options, broken down by Apply the change across all plant types (80%) and Apply changes to selected plant types (20%).

The majority of respondents (80%) supported applying legislative change across all plant types. Whist a minority of respondents (20%) supported to applying a pragmatic approach that considers the likelihood of use (i.e. material where the propagation method does not easily allow for heterogeneity, or where there is unlikely to be a market demand for heterogeneity).

Contact

Email: sam.filippi@gov.scot

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