The Vegetable Seeds Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Official label for a package of officially certified pre-basic seedN.I.

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

4.  Subject to paragraph 28, the package 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 certification authority and member State or their commonly used initials;

(b)the reference number of the lot;

(c)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 official sampling;

(d)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;

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

(f)the description “pre-basic seed”;

(g)the number of generations by which the seed precedes CS seed;

(h)the country of production;

(i)the declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds; and

(j)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 pure seeds and the total weight.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 8 para. 4 in operation at 31.12.2009, see reg. 1