The Marketing of Fruit Plant Material Regulations 2010

PART 4 Additional requirements

Measures to be taken by producers

16.  A producer must—

(a) treat or, where appropriate, remove any plant material that shows visible signs or symptoms of any of the organisms or diseases referred to in regulation 12(a); and

(b) keep plant material in lots of homogeneous composition and origin during growing and lifting or removal from parent material.

Monitoring of production process

17.  A producer must—

(a) identify and monitor critical points in the production process that influence the quality of plant material;

(b) take samples of plant material for analysis in a laboratory, where necessary, to ensure compliance with these Regulations; and

(c) ensure that lots of propagating material remain separately identifiable during production.

Record-keeping

18.—(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 or transport or at delivery.

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

(a) all plant material under production on the producer’s premises;

(b) all occurrences on the producer’s premises of any organisms or diseases referred to in regulation 12(a) and on any measures taken in relation to such occurrences; and

(c) all monitoring undertaken for the purposes of regulation 17(a).

(3) The records referred to in this regulation must be kept for at least 3 years.

(4) Paragraph (1)(a) does not apply to a supplier marketing only to non-professional final consumers.