The Cereal Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2005

Official label for a package of Basic Seed or Seed of a Certified Generation

5.  The official label for a package of Basic Seed or Seed of a Certified Generation shall–

(a) subject to sub paragraph (b), contain the following information:–

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

(ii) certifying authority and EEA State or their commonly used initials;

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

(aa) by the word “Sealed” followed by the month and year of sealing; or

(bb) by the word “Sampled” followed by the month and year of official sampling;

(iv) reference number of the seed lot;

(v) species;

(vi) variety;

(vii) category;

(viii) country of production;

(ix) declared net or gross weight;

(x) 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 seed and the total weight;

(xi) in the case of a variety which is a hybrid or an inbred line–

(aa) for Basic Seed where the hybrid or inbred line to which the seed belongs has been officially accepted on to a UK National List or the Common Catalogue, the name under which it has been officially accepted, with or without reference to the final variety, accompanied, in the case of a hybrid or inbred line which is intended solely as a component for a final hybrid variety, by the word “component”;

(bb) for Basic Seed in other cases, the name of the component to which the Basic Seed belongs, which may be given in code form, accompanied by a reference to the final variety, with or without reference to its function (male or female), and accompanied by the word “component”; and

(cc) for Certified Seed the name of the variety to which the seed belongs, accompanied by the word “hybrid”;

(xii) in the case of Certified Seed of the First Generation and Certified Seed of the Second Generation of oats officially classified as being of a naked oat type, the words “minimum germination capacity of 75%”; and

(xiii) where at least germination has been retested, the word “Retested” followed by the month and year of retesting and the service responsible for such retesting;

(b) not contain the information referred to in sub-paragraph (a)(xiii) if that information is given on an official sticker attached to the official label;

(c) be a minimum size of 110 millimetres by 67 millimetres; and

(d) be coloured–

(i) white for Basic Seed;

(ii) blue for Certified Seed and Certified Seed of the First Generation; and

(iii) red for Certified Seed of the Second Generation.