The Seed Marketing (Wales) Regulations 2012

CHAPTER 2 Higher voluntary standards

Higher voluntary standards for fodder seed

29.  In the case of cocksfoot, festulolium, hybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, Lucerne, meadow fescue, perennial ryegrass, red clover, red fescue, sainfoin, small timothy, timothy, smooth stalked meadow grass, tall fescue and white clover, certified seed (CS) may be marketed as certified seed of a higher voluntary standard.

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

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