The Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993

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.