SCHEDULE 2Official labels and official documents

Regulations 2(1) and 11(3)

PART 1Official labels

1

1

An official label affixed to a package or container of seed potatoes—

a

in the case of basic seed potatoes, shall be white;

b

in the case of pre-basic seed potatoes, shall be white with a diagonal violet line;

c

in the case of test and trial seed potatoes, shall be orange.

2

An official label shall not measure less than 110 millimetres by 67 millimetres in size.

3

An official label affixed to a package or container of basic seed potatoes shall—

a

state the words “ F2UK Rules and Standards”; and

b

state the following particulars—

  • Certification authority and F1country or their initials;

  • F5Officially assigned serial number;

  • Country of production;

  • Producer's identification number or reference number of the lot;

  • Variety, indicated at least in Roman characters;

  • Genetically modified (if appropriate);

  • Basic seed potatoes;

  • Grade;

  • Size;

  • Declared net weight;

  • Month and year of sealing.

4

An official label affixed to a package or container of pre-basic seed potatoes shall state the following particulars—

  • Certification authority and F1country or their initials;

  • Producer's identification number or reference number of the lot;

  • Species, indicated at least in Roman characters, under its botanical name, which may be given in abridged form and without the authors' names, or under its common name, or both;

  • Variety, indicated at least in Roman characters;

  • Genetically modified (if appropriate);

  • Pre-basic seed potatoes;

  • Grade;

  • Month and year of sealing.

5

An official label affixed to a package or container of test and trial seed potatoes shall—

a

state the words “variety not yet officially listed” and “for test and trials only”; and

b

state the following particulars—

  • Certification authority and F1country or their distinguishing abbreviation;

  • Producer's identification number or reference number of the lot;

  • Month and year of sealing;

  • Species;

  • Denomination of the variety under which the seed potatoes are to be marketed (which may be the breeder's reference, the proposed denomination or the approved denomination);

  • Reference number in respect of any application submitted in accordance with regulation 4(1)(a) of the F6NI Variety Lists Regulations;

  • Genetically modified (if appropriate);

  • Size;

  • Declared net weight.

2

In the case of seed potatoes of a conservation variety, in addition to the requirements of paragraph 1, an official label shall include the words and particulars F4specified in Article 18 of Commission Directive 2008/62/ECF3read as if, in point (a), for “ EC ” there were substituted “UK”.

3

Without prejudice to paragraph 1, an official label may contain a statement concerning the field generation to which the seed potatoes belong.

PART 2Official Documents

4

An official document used—

a

in the case of pre-basic seed potatoes, shall be coloured white with a diagonal violet line;

b

in the case of basic seed potatoes, shall be coloured white;

c

in the case of test and trial seed potatoes, shall be coloured orange.

5

An official document shall, in relation to the seed potatoes to which it relates, state—

a

the producer's identification number or reference number of the lot;

b

the month and year of sealing; and

c

the country of production.