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

Regulation 2(1) and 10

SCHEDULE 2 Official labels and supplier’s documents

PART 1 Official labels

1.  An official label used in relation to pre-basic material must be white with a diagonal violet stripe.

2.  An official label used in relation to basic material must be white.

3.  An official label used in relation to certified material must be blue.

4.  An official label must—

(a) contain the statement “EU rules and standards”; and

(b) state the following particulars—

(i) the name of the responsible authority and member State or their distinguishing abbreviations;

(ii) the name of the supplier or their registration number;

(iii) the crop inspection certificate number;

(iv) the botanical name of the plant material;

(v) the category of the plant material and, for basic material, the generation number;

(vi) the denomination of the variety, and where appropriate, the clone;

(vii) in the case of rootstocks not belonging to a variety, the name of the species or the interspecific hybrid concerned;

(viii) in the case of grafted plants, the information in sub-paragraph (vi) (in relation to the top graft) and (vii) (in relation to the rootstock);

(ix) for varieties in respect of which an application to be a registered variety or for the grant of a plant variety right is pending, any information given in relation to sub-paragraphs (vi) to (viii) must be pre-fixed with the words “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;

(x) for varieties in respect of which an application to be a registered variety or for the grant of a plant variety right is pending, any information given in relation to sub-paragraphs (vi) to (viii) must be pre-fixed with the words “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;

(xi) where appropriate, the words “variety with an officially recognised description”;

(xii) the quantity of plant material;

(xiii) where different from the member State of labelling, the country of production and its respective code or abbreviation;

(xiv) the year of issue, or in the case of a replacement label, the year of issue of the original label;

(xv) in the case of a genetically modified variety—

(aa) a statement that the variety has been genetically modified; and

(bb) a list of the genetically modified organisms.

5.  The information and particulars required on an official label must be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the European Union, easily visible and legible.

PART 2 Supplier’s documents

6.  A supplier’s document must—

(a) contain the statement “EU rules and standards”;

(b) state the following particulars—

(i) the name of the responsible Authority and member State where the supplier’s document was prepared or their distinguishing abbreviations;

(ii) the name or the registration number of the supplier;

(iii) the individual serial, week or batch number;

(iv) the botanical name of the plant material;

(v) CAC material;

(vi) the denomination of the variety and, where appropriate, the clone;

(vii) in the case of rootstocks not belonging to a variety, the name of the species or the interspecific hybrid concerned;

(viii) in the case of grafted fruit plants, the denomination of the variety of the rootstock and of the top-graft;

(ix) for varieties for which an application for registration of plant variety is pending, any information given in relation to sub-paragraphs (vi) and (viii) must be pre-fixed with the words “proposed denomination” and “application pending”;

(x) the quantity;

(xi) the country of production and its distinguishing abbreviation where different from the member State in which the supplier’s document was prepared;

(xii) the date of issue of the supplier’s document; and

(c) in the case of a variety of plant material of no intrinsic value for commercial crop production which may be marketed pursuant to regulation 7(2)(e), contain a reference to the second sub-paragraph of Article 7(2) of the Directive

7.  The information and particulars required in a supplier’s document must be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the European Union, easily visible and legible.