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

Requirements for the certification of basic material

15.—(1) Propagating material other than basic mother plants or rootstocks which do not belong to a variety may be officially certified as basic material if it has been found on official inspection and, where appropriate, through administrative checks, to fulfil the following requirements:—

(a) it has been propagated from a basic mother plant;

(b) the basic mother plant mentioned in head (a)—

(i) has been grown from pre-basic material; or

(ii) has been produced by multiplication from a basic mother plant, in accordance with paragraph 20;

(c) it complies with the requirements in paragraphs 7, 8(5) and 12;

(d) it complies with the requirements in paragraph 8(3)(c);

(e) it complies with the requirements in paragraph 17;

(f) it complies with the requirements in paragraph 18;

(g) it is maintained in accordance with paragraph 19; and

(h) there has been compliance with the requirements concerning multiplication and multiplication by micropropagation in paragraph 20.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)(c) references in paragraphs 7, 8(5) and 12 to—

(a) pre-basic mother plants may be construed as references to basic mother plants; and

(b) pre-basic material may be construed as references to basic material.