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

Propagating material (other than mother plants and rootstocks)

3.—(1) Propagating material (other than mother plants and rootstocks) may be certified as pre-basic material if that material meets the requirements in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The requirements are that the propagating material—

(a) is directly propagated from a mother plant—

(i) accepted in accordance with paragraph 5;

(ii) obtained by multiplication or micropropagation in accordance with paragraph 13;

(b) has been verified by an inspector as being true to the description of its variety in accordance with paragraph 7;

(c) has been maintained in accordance with paragraph 8;

(d) complies with the health requirements in paragraph 10;

(e) where authorised under paragraph 8(2) to be grown in the field under non-insect proof conditions, is grown in soil that is found, by sampling and testing, to comply with paragraph 11;

(f) complies with paragraph 12 concerning defects.

(3) Where the mother plant or propagating material no longer fulfils the relevant requirements in sub-paragraph (2), the supplier—

(a) must remove the plant or material from the vicinity of other pre-basic mother plants and pre-basic material;

(b) may take appropriate measures in order to ensure that the mother plant or material complies with those requirements again.

(4) A supplier may use any mother plant or material removed in accordance with sub-paragraph (3)(a) as basic, certified or CAC material provided the plant or material fulfils the requirements set out in these Regulations for the respective categories.