The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Scotland) Regulations 2017

4.  An official label must— S

(a) contain the statement “[F1 UK] rules and standards”; and

(b) state the following particulars:—

(i) the name of the responsible official body and [F2 country] or their distinguishing abbreviations;

(ii) the name of the supplier or their registration number;

(iii) the reference number of the package, container or bundle, the individual serial number, the week number or the batch number;

(iv) the botanical name of the plant material;

(v) the category of the plant material and, for basic material, the generation number;

(vi) the denomination of the variety and, where appropriate, the clone.

(vii) in the case of rootstocks not belonging to a variety, the name of the species or the interspecific hybrid concerned;

(viii) in the case of grafted fruit plants, the information in heads (vi) (in relation to the top-graft) and (vii) (in relation to the rootstock);

(ix) for varieties in respect of which an application to be a registered variety or for the grant of a plant variety right is pending, any information given in relation to heads (vi) to (viii) must be pre-fixed with the words “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;

(x) where appropriate, the words “variety with an officially recognised description”;

(xi) the quantity of plant material;

(xii) where different from the [F3 country] of labelling, the country of production and its respective code or abbreviation;

(xiii) the year of issue, or in the case of a replacement label, the year of issue of the original label;

(xiv) in the case of a genetically modified variety—

(aa) a statement that the variety has been genetically modified; and

(bb) a list of the genetically modified organisms.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in sch. 5 para. 4(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 18(8)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Word in sch. 5 para. 4(b)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 18(8)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Word in sch. 5 para. 4(b)(xii) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed and Propagating Material (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/59), regs. 1(1)(b), 18(8)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)