The Beet Seed (Wales) Regulations 2005

Official label for a package of officially certified basic or CS seed

8.  A package of officially certified basic or CS seed, other than a small EC package of basic or CS seed, shall be labelled, not later than the time of sealing, on the outside with an official label which has not previously been used containing the following particulars—

(a) the words “EC rules and standards”;

(b) the name of the certifying authority and member State or their commonly used initials;

(c) the reference number of the lot;

(d) the month and year of sealing or the month and year of the last official sampling for the purposes of certification, expressed respectively as follows—

(i) by the word “Sealed” followed by the month and year of sealing, or

(ii) by the word “Sampled” followed by the month and year of last official sampling for the purposes of certification;

(e) the species, indicated at least in Roman characters—

(i) under its botanical name, which may be given in abridged form and without the author’s name; or

(ii) under its common name; or

(iii) under both;

(f) for sugar beet the words “sugar beet” and for fodder beet the words “fodder beet”;

(g) the variety, indicated at least in Roman characters;

(h) the category;

(i) the country of production;

(j) the declared net or gross weight or declared number of clusters or pure seed;

(k) where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used, the nature of the additive and also the approximate ratio between the weight of clusters or pure seeds and the total weight;

(l) for monogerm seed, the word “monogerm”; and

(m) for precision seed, the word “precision”.