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

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE 2 Official labels and supplier’s documents

PART 1 Official labels

1.  An official label used in relation to pre-basic material must be white with a diagonal violet stripe.

2.  An official label used in relation to basic material must be white.

3.  An official label used in relation to certified material must be blue.

4.  An official label must—

(a) not have been previously used;

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

(c) state the following particulars—

(i) the name of the responsible authority or its distinguishing abbreviation;

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

(iii) the crop inspection certificate number;

(iv) the botanical name of the plant material;

(v) the category of plant material (pre-basic material, basic material, certified material or CAC 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 denomination of the variety of the rootstock and of the top-graft;

(ix) for varieties for which an application for registration of plant variety right is pending, any information given in relation to paragraphs (vi) and (viii) must be prefaced 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 not Wales, 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.

5.  The information and particulars required on an official label must be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the European Union, easily visible and legible.

6.  An official label may contain such further particulars as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.

7.  In this Part, the “crop inspection certificate number” means the number allocated to the crop inspection certificate by the inspector at the time of issue.

PART 2 Supplier’s document: CAC material

8.  A supplier’s document accompanying CAC material must—

(a) contain the statements “EU rules and standards” and “CAC material”; and

(b) state the following particulars—

(i) the names of the responsible authority and member State where the supplier’s document was prepared or their distinguishing abbreviations;

(ii) the supplier’s registration number;

(iii) the individual serial, week or batch number;

(iv) the botanical name of the plant material;

(v) the denomination of the variety and, where appropriate, the clone;

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

(vii) in the case of grafted fruit plants, the denomination of the variety of the rootstock and of the top-graft;

(viii) for varieties for which an application for registration of plant variety right is pending, any information given in relation to paragraphs (v) and (vii) must be pre-fixed with the words “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;

(ix) the quantity;

(x) the country of production and its distinguishing abbreviations where different from the member State in which the supplier’s document was prepared;

(xi) the date the supplier’s document was issued.

9.  The information and particulars required in a supplier’s document must be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the European Union, easily visible and legible.

10.  A supplier’s document accompanying CAC material produced in Wales may contain such further particulars as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.