The Seed Potatoes (Scotland) Regulations 2015 No. 395

SCHEDULE 5 S OFFICIAL LABELS

Basic seed potatoes S

2.—(1) The requirements set out in this paragraph apply to an official label attached to a package or container of basic seed potatoes.

(2) An official label to which this paragraph applies must—

(a) be predominately white;

(b) measure not less than 110 millimetres by 67 millimetres and unless the package or container is intended for export to countries outside the European Union, have printed on it the words “EU Rules and Standards”; and

(c) state the following particulars—

• Certification authority and member State or their initials;

• [F1 Officially assigned serial number;]

• Country of production;

• Basic seed potatoes;

• Species indicated at least in Roman characters, under its botanical name which may be given in abridged form and without the authors' names or under its common name or both;

• Crop identification number including producer's identification number M1 (or equivalent);

• Variety indicated at least in Roman characters;

• Genetically modified (if appropriate);

• Grade;

• Field generation (unless otherwise requested by the applicant);

• Size;

• Month and year when officially sealed;

• Declared net weight;

• Conservation Variety (if appropriate); and

• Region of origin (if appropriate).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in sch. 5 para. 2(2)(c) inserted (31.3.2017) by The Seed (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/434), regs. 1(1), 7(3)(a)

Marginal Citations

M1 These terms are referred to in Schedule 1, Part I, paragraphs 1(a) and (b).