Commission Implementing Directive 2014/96/EUShow full title

Article 5 Supplier's document for CAC material

1. Member States shall ensure that CAC material is marketed with a document prepared by the supplier and complying with paragraphs 2 and 3, hereinafter ‘the supplier's document’.

Member States shall ensure that the supplier's document does not resemble a label referred to in Article 2 or an accompanying document referred to in Article 3, so as to avoid any possible confusion between the supplier's document and those two documents.

2. The supplier's document shall contain at least the following information:

(a) the indication ‘EU rules and standards’;

(b) Member State where the supplier's document has been prepared, or the respective code;

(c) responsible official body or the respective code;

(d) name of supplier or its registration number/code issued by the responsible official body;

(e) individual serial number, week number or batch number;

(f) botanical name;

(g) CAC material;

(h) denomination of the variety and, where appropriate, the clone. In the case of rootstocks not belonging to a variety, the name of the species or the interspecific hybrid concerned. For grafted fruit plants such information shall be given for the rootstock and the top-graft. For varieties for which an application for official registration or for a plant variety right is pending, such information shall indicate: ‘proposed denomination’ and ‘application pending’;

(i) quantity;

(j) country of production and the respective code, where different from the Member State where the supplier's document has been prepared;

(k) date of issue of the document.

3. The supplier's document shall be indelibly printed in one of the official languages of the Union and easily visible and legible.