Council Directive of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (66/402/EEC)

[F1 ANNEX V U.K. Label and document provided in the case of seed not finally certified, harvested in another Member State

Textual Amendments

F1 Inserted by Council Directive of 13 June 1988 amending Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC, 70/457/EEC and 70/458/EEC on the marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal seed, seed potatoes, seed of oil and fibre plants and vegetable seed and on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (88/380/EEC).

A. Information required for the label U.K.

• authority responsible for field inspection and Member State or their initials,

• [F2 officially assigned serial number,]

• species, indicated at least under its botanical name, which may be given in abridged form and without the authorities' names, in roman characters,

• variety, indicated at least in roman characters; in the case of varieties (inbred lines, hybrids), which are intended solely as components for hybrid varieties, the word ‘ component ’ shall be added,

• category,

• in the case of hybrid varieties the word ‘ hybrid ’ ,

• declared net or gross weight,

• the words ‘ seed not finally certified ’ .

Textual Amendments

F2 Inserted by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/317 of 3 March 2016 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 2002/54/EC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC and 2002/57/EC as regards the official label of seed packages (Text with EEA relevance).

In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 21, Member States may be released from the requirement to indicate the botanical name in respect of individual species and, where appropriate, for limited periods where it has been established that the disadvantages of its implementation outweigh the advantages expected for the marketing of seed.

B. Colour of the label U.K.

The label shall be grey.

C. Information required for the document U.K.

• authority issuing the document,

• [F2 officially assigned serial number,]

• species, indicated at least under its botanical name, which may be given in abridged form and without the authorities' names, in roman characters,

• variety, indicated at least in roman characters,

• category,

• reference number of the seed used to sow the field and name of the country or countries which certified that seed,

• field or lot reference number,

• area cultivated for the production of the lot covered by the document,

• quantity of seed harveted and number of packages,

• number of generations after basic seed, in the case of certified seed,

• attestation that the conditions to be satisfied by the crop from which the seed comes have been fulfilled,

• where appropriate, results of a preliminary seed analysis.]