The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012

CHAPTER 2 E+W Higher voluntary standards

Higher voluntary standards for fodder seed E+W

[F1 29.   The following may be marketed as seed of a higher voluntary standard—

(a) cocksfoot, festulolium, hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, meadow fescue, perennial ryegrass, red clover, red fescue, sainfoin, small timothy, timothy, smooth stalked meadow grass, tall fescue and white clover, where any of these are classified as certified seed (CS);

(b) lucerne, classified either as certified seed of the first generation (CI) or certified seed of the second generation (C2).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 para. 29 substituted (11.1.2017) by The Seed Marketing (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/1242), regs. 1(1), 6

Minimum standards for purity and other species of seed in the sample E+W

30.  The sample taken under paragraph 28(2) for the purpose of Council Directive 66/401/EEC must have the minimum standards set out in the following table.

Column header	Minimum analytical purity (% by weight)	Total weight of all other species (% by weight)	Total weight of a single other species (% by weight)	Seed of Rumex spp excluding R acetosella and R maritimus	Seed of couch	Seed of blackgrass	Limits of other specific species
Fine grasses festulolium 98 1.5 0 0 10 0 red fescue 95 1.5 0.5 5 10 10 The sample must have no more than four seeds ryegrass, cocksfoot, meadow fescue and 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass smooth-stalked meadowgrass 90 1.5 0.5 2 3 3 Maximum of 0.4% by weight of seed of other meadow grass
Fodder grasses cocksfoot 90 1.5 0.5 5 10 10 meadow fescue, tall fescue 98 1.5 0.5 5 10 10 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass, 0.3% ryegrass hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass 98 1.5 0.5 5 10 10 0.4% annual meadowgrass, 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass small timothy, timothy 98 1.5 0.5 4 10 10 0.3% Agrostis spp
Small seeded legumes lucerne, red clover, white clover 98 1.5 0.5 10 10 10 0.3% Melitotus spp sainfoin 98 1.5 0.5 5 10 10 0.3% Melitotus spp