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The Seed (Scotland) (Amendments for Conservation Varieties) Regulations 2009

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Insertion of new paragraph 6B to Schedule 6

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11.  In Schedule 6, in Part II (Labels), after paragraph 6A (official label for a package of test and trial seed)(1) insert–

Official label for a package of seed of a Conservation Variety

6B.  The official label for a package of seed of a Conservation Variety shall–

(a)contain the following information–

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

(ii)the name and address, or the registration number, of the person responsible for affixing the label or notice;

(iii)the year of sealing, or the year of last sampling for the purposes of the last testing of germination, expressed by the word “sealed” or “sampled” (as the case may be), followed by the year in question;

(iv)the species;

(v)the denomination of the Conservation Variety;

(vi)the words “Conservation Variety”;

(vii)the region of origin;

(viii)where the region of seed production is different from the region of origin, the indication of the region of seed production;

(ix)the reference number of the lot given by the person responsible for affixing the labels;

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

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

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

(c)be coloured brown..

(1)

Paragraph 6A was inserted by S.S.I. 2007/224.

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