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

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4.  An official label must—

(a)contain the statement “EU rules and standards”; and

(b)state the following particulars:—

(i)the name of the responsible official body and member State 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 member State 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.