PART 3Suppliers

Supplier’s duties - record keeping

17.—(1) A supplier must as soon as reasonably practicable make a record of—

(a)all sales and purchases of plant material;

(b)all deliveries of plant material to and from the supplier’s premises; and

(c)the composition and origin of any plant material of different origins mixed by the supplier during packaging, storage, transportation or delivery.

(2) A supplier must as soon as reasonably practicable make a record of—

(a)all plant material being produced on the supplier’s premises;

(b)any occurrence on the supplier’s premises of any organisms or diseases referred to in Table IA, IB, II or III of schedule 6 and of any measures taken in relation to such an occurrence;

(c)all monitoring undertaken for the purposes of regulation 14; and

(d)all field inspections, sampling and testing conducted while the plant material is under the supplier’s control.

(3) Any record under paragraph (1) or (2) must be kept while the plant material is in production and for a period of at least 3 years beginning from the point at which the plant material in question is removed or marketed.