Schedule 9B, Part 1, paragraph 1

In this schedule— “Invasive Alien Species Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species, “contained holding” means closed facilities from which escape or spread is not possible, “ex-situ conservation” means the conservation of components of biological diversity outside their natural habitat, “invasive alien species” means a species, sub-species or lower taxon of animal, plant, fungus or micro-organism included on the Scottish list of species of special concern, “research” means descriptive or experimental work, undertaken under regulated conditions to obtain new scientific findings or to develop new products, including the initial phases of identification, characterisation and isolation of genetic features, other than those features which make a species invasive, of invasive alien species only insofar as essential to enable the breeding of those features into non-invasive species, Scottish list of species of special concern” means the list of species in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1141 adopting a list of invasive alien species of Union concern pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as amended from time to time. “specimen” means a live specimen and includes any part, gamete, seed, egg or propagule of a species, as well as any hybrids, varieties or breeds that might grow, hatch or reproduce, as the case may be, ...

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30