The Fodder Plant Seed (Wales) Regulations 2005

PART VII Whole bag labelling

Seed which has not been imported

35.  The printing or stamping of the packages shall be under the supervision of the National Assembly for Wales.

36.  Each package shall have printed or stamped on it, or be perforated with, an individual serial number allocated by the National Assembly for Wales, which shall appear in the same panel as the particulars of the matters specified in paragraph 9.

37.  Arrangements shall be made with the person who prints the whole bag labels to provide the National Assembly for Wales with returns of the number of packages printed or stamped pursuant to regulation 26(16) and of the individual serial numbers used on such packages.

38.  The reference number of the seed lot and the month and year in which the package was officially sealed shall be printed or stamped under the supervision of an authorised officer or a licensed seed sampler at the time of sampling for official examination.

39.  There shall be kept such records of seed packaged and marketed pursuant to regulation 26(16) as may be required by the National Assembly for Wales.

40.  Each package of basic seed marketed in accordance with regulation 26(16) shall be capable of having affixed to it, in a manner approved by the National Assembly for Wales, a label containing a statement pursuant to regulation 17.

Seed imported from another Member State

41.  Such requirements of the member State from which the seed has been imported as correspond to the requirements specified in this Part for seed which has not been imported shall, in the opinion of the National Assembly for Wales, have been satisfied.