The Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002

Identification and separation of forest reproductive material during production

14.—(1) Except for material which is mixed in accordance with regulation 15, no person shall keep forest reproductive material at any stage of production, including collection and during the course of marketing, other than in separate lots in respect of each unit of approval, and distinguished from each other by reference to the following criteria (“the identification criteria”)—

(a) Master Certificate code and number (where a certificate has been issued);

(b) botanical name;

(c) category of forest reproductive material;

(d) whether for multiple forestry purposes or a specific purpose, and if the latter, specifying that purpose;

(e) type of basic material from which it is derived;

(f) either—

(i) the reference number given to the approved basic material in the National Register, or in the case of approved EC basic material or approved Northern Ireland basic material, in the equivalent register drawn up and maintained by the relevant official body in accordance with Article 10 of the Directive; or

(ii) in the case of source-identified and selected forest reproductive material or forest reproductive material which is mixed in accordance with regulation 15, the identity code for the region of provenance from which the forest reproductive material is derived;

(g) in the case of forest reproductive material derived from basic material in the form of a stand or seed source, whether the origin of the material is autochthonous, indigenous, or neither; or unknown;

(h) in the case of seed units, the year of ripening;

(i) the age and type of planting stock of seedlings or cuttings, whether undercuts, transplants or containerised;

(j) whether the forest reproductive material is genetically modified or derived from basic material which consists of a genetically modified organism; and

(k) in the case of mixed forest reproductive material permitted under regulation 15 clear identification of the components of the forest reproductive material so mixed.

(2) Without prejudice to the requirements of paragraph (1), in the case of forest reproductive material which is produced in accordance with regulation 12 by subsequent multiplication by vegetative propagation, forest reproductive material shall be kept in separate lots from other forest reproductive material produced from such propagation from the same basic material carried out on other occasions.

(3) The identification criteria and the information required under this regulation shall be documented either by labelling which clearly distinguishes each lot, or by any other method which has been approved by the Commissioners in writing prior to its use.