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

CAC material: trueness to the description of the variety

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3.—(1) A supplier must establish and regularly verify the trueness of CAC material to the description of its variety in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) The trueness of certified material to the description of its variety must be established and verified by observation of the expression of the characteristics of the variety based on one of the following descriptions—

(a)its official description;

(b)the description accompanying the application to be a registered variety;

(c)the description accompanying the application for a grant of plant variety rights; or

(d)where the variety is registered with an officially recognised description, or subject to an application for registration with an officially recognised description, that description.