1. On receipt of an application for authorisation made in accordance with regulation 8, an authorised officer must—
(a)allocate to the person making such application a number to be known as a “producer’s identification number” (where one does not already exist for that person);
(b)conduct an official examination of the seed potatoes in order to determine whether the requirements of this Schedule and Part IV of Schedule 3 have been met; and
(c)subject to paragraph 3 and regulation 8, issue an authorisation to market seed potatoes for test and trial purposes.