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

PART 1 N.I. Official labels

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

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

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

4.  An official label must— N.I.

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

(b) state the following particulars—

(i) the name of the responsible authority and member State or their distinguishing abbreviations;

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

(iii) the crop inspection certificate 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 plants, the information in sub-paragraph (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 sub-paragraphs (vi) to (viii) must be pre-fixed with the words “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;

F2 (x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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

(xii) the quantity of plant material;

(xiii) where different from the member State of labelling, the country of production and its respective code or abbreviation;

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

(xv) 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. 2 para. 4(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 60(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Sch. 2 para. 4(b)(x) omitted (23.12.2020) by virtue of The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/294), regs. 1, 2(4)(a)

5.  The information and particulars required on an official label must be [F3 — N.I.

(a) easily visible and legible, and

(b) indelibly printed in English (but may also be printed in other languages)].

Textual Amendments

F3 Words in Sch. 2 para. 5 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Marketing of Seeds and Plant Propagating Material (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/211), regs. 1(1), 60(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)