Official label for a package of officially certified basic, CS, C1 or C2 seed
9. The package shall be labelled, not later than the time of sealing, on the outside with an official label which has not previously been used or an official stamp containing the following particulars —
(a)the words “EC rules and standards”;
(b)the name of the certifying authority and member State or their commonly used initials;
(c)the reference number of the seed lot;
(d)the month and year of sealing or the month and year of the last official sampling for the purposes of certification, expressed respectively as follows —
(i)by the word “Sealed” followed by the month and year of sealing, or
(ii)by the word “Sampled” followed by the month and year of last official sampling for the purposes of certification;
(e)the species, indicated at least under its botanical name, which may be given in abridged form and without the author’s name, in Roman characters;
(ea)in the case of x Festulolium, the names of the species within the genus Festuca and Lolium;
(f)the variety, indicated at least in Roman characters;
(g)the category;
(h)the country of production;
(i)the declared net or gross weight or declared number of pure seed;
(j)where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used, the nature of the additives and also the approximate ratio between the weight of pure seeds and the total weight;
(k)in the case of CS, C1 and C2 seed, the number of generations after basic seed; and
(l)in the case of seed of a grass variety for which an examination of its value for cultivation and use is not required in accordance with Article 4(2)(a) of the Common Catalogue Directive, the words “not intended for the production of fodder plants”.