The Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993

Regulations 5(4) and (14) and 9(2), (6), (7), (11) and (12)

SCHEDULE 6 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE REGULATIONS THE PARTICULARS PRESCRIBED IN THIS SCHEDULE AS TO THE KIND AND VARIETY OF SEED SHALL BE INDICATED ON THE LABEL IN ROMAN CHARACTERS. THE KIND OF SEED SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY ITS LATIN NAME, OR ITS COMMON NAME, OR BOTH, AS PRESCRIBED IN SCHEDULE 1

PART I

Official Label for a Package of Pre-basic Seed

A.

 (a) Prescribed contents

(1) Certification Authority and Member State or their mark

(2) Reference number of the lot

(3) Month and year when officially sealed

(4) Kind

(5) Variety

(6) “Pre-basic Seed”

(7) Country of production

(8) Number of generations preceding seeds of the category “Certified Seed”

(9) Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds

(10) Where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used the nature of the additive and also the approximate ratio between the weight of the seed and the total weight

(b) Minimum size of the label—110 mm × 67 mm

(c) The label shall be white with a diagonal violet line.

Official Label for a Package of Basic Seed or for a Package (Other than a Small Package) of Certified Seed

B.

 (a) Prescribed contents

(1) “EEC rules and standards”

(2) Certification Authority and Member State or their mark

(3) Month and year when officially sealed

(4) Reference number of the lot

(5) Kind

(6) Variety

(7) Category

(8) Country of production

(9) Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds

(10) Where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used, the nature of the additive and also the approximate ratio between the weight of seed and the total weight

(11) In the case of varieties which are hybrids or inbred lines—

(a) for the Basic Seed where the hybrid or inbred line to which the seed belongs has been officially accepted on a National List or the Common Catalogue—

• the name of this component, under which it has been officially accepted, with or without reference to the final variety, accompanied, in the case of hybrids or inbred lines which are intended solely as components for final varieties, by the word “component”;

(b) for Basic Seed in other cases—

• the name of the component to which the Basic Seed belongs, which may be given in code form, accompanied by a reference to the final variety, with or without reference to its function (male or female), and accompanied by the word “component”;

(c) for Certified Seed—

• the name of the variety to which the seed belongs, accompanied by the word “hybrid”.

(b) Minimum size of the label—110 mm × 67 mm

(c) The label shall be white for Basic Seed and Blue for Certified Seed.

Official Label for a Package of Seed not Finally Certified

C.

 (a) Prescribed contents of the label

(1) Certifying authority

(2) Kind

(3) Variety

(4) Category

(5) Crop Identity Number

(6) Declared net or gross weight (Tonnes)

(7) The words “seed not finally certified”

The label shall be coloured grey.

(b) Information required for the document

(1) Certifying authority

(2) Kind

(3) Variety

(4) Category

(5) Seed Lot Reference Number (UK) or Reference Number (other than UK) of the seed used to sow the field and name of the country or countries which certified that seed

(6) Crop Identity Number

(7) Area cultivated for the production of the lot covered by document (Hectares)

(8) Quantity of seed harvested and number of packages

(9) Number of generations after basic seed, in the case of certified seed

(10) Attestation that the conditions to be satisfied by the crop from which the seed comes have been fulfilled

(11) Where appropriate, results of a preliminary seed analysis.

PART II

Supplier’s Label for a Package of Standard Seed, other than a Small Package

A.

 (a) Prescribed contents

(1) “EEC rules and standards”

(2) Name and address of the supplier responsible for affixing the label or his identification mark

(3) Month and year when sealed

(4) Kind

(5) Variety

(6) “Standard Seed”

(7) Lot reference number given by the supplier responsible for affixing the labels

(8) Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds

(9) Where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used the nature of the additive and also the approximate ratio between the weight of the seed and the total weight.

(b) Minimum size of the label—110 mm × 67 mm

(c) The label shall be dark yellow.

Supplier’s label for a Package of Uncertified Pre-basic Seed

B.

 (a) Prescribed contents

(1) Name and address of the supplier responsible for fixing the labels or his identification mark

(2) Reference number of the lot

(3) “Kind”

(4) Variety

(5) “Uncertified Pre-basic Seed”

(6) Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds.

(b) The label shall be coloured buff.

PART III

SMALL PACKAGES

Supplier’s Label for a Small Package of Certified Seed

A.

 (a) Prescribed contents

(1) “EEC rules and standards”

(2) Name and address of the supplier responsible for affixing the labels or his identification mark

(3) Year of sealing

(4) Kind

(5) Variety

(6) “Certified Seed”

(7) Reference number enabling the certified lot to be identified

(8) Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds, except in the case of packages not exceeding 500 grams

(9) Where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used the nature of the additive and also the approximate ratio between the weight of the seed and the total weight.

(b) The label shall be blue.

Supplier’s Label for a Small Package of Standard Seed

B.

 (a) Prescribed contents

(1) “EEC rules and standards”

(2) Kind

(3) Variety

(4) Name and address of packeter or his identifying reference number

(5) Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds, except in the case of packages not exceeding 500 grams

(6) “Standard Seed”

(7) Year of sealing (packeting)

(8) Where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used the nature of the additive and also the approximate ratio between the weight of the seed and the total weight.

(b) Where the seeds comprise a mixture of seeds of different varieties of lettuce or of different varieties of radish the label shall also state the names of the constituent varieties.

(c) The label shall be dark yellow.

PART IV

PARTICULARS TO BE MARKED OR DISPLAYED ON THE SALE OF UNPACKETED SEEDS

1.  “Complies with legal standards”

2.  Kind

3.  Variety.