The Oil and Fibre Plant Seed (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Harmful organisms which reduce the usefulness of the seed shall be at the lowest possible level and shall comply with the requirements in paragraph 15(b) and (c) of Part II of Schedule 4 (if appropriate).

Varietal purity

3

The seed shall have sufficient varietal purity.

PART V — EXAMINATIONS

All examinations used to ascertain whether crops or seed lots meet the standards specified in this Schedule shall be carried out in accordance with current international methods insofar as such methods exist.

Official label for a package of seed of a Conservation Variety

6B

• (1) The official label for a package of seed of a Conservation Variety shall–

• (a) contain the following information–

• (i) the words “GB rules and standards”;

• (ii) the name and address, or the registered or licensed number, of the person responsible for affixing the label or notice;

• (iii) the year of sealing, or the year of last sampling for the purposes of the last testing of germination, expressed by the word “sealed” or “sampled” (as the case may be), followed by the year in question;

• (iv) the species;

• (v) the denomination of the Conservation Variety;

• (vi) the words “Conservation Variety”;

• (vii) the region of origin;

• (viii) where the region of seed production is different from the region of origin, the indication of the region of seed production;

• (ix) the reference number of the lot given by the person responsible for affixing the labels;

• (x) the declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds; and

• (xi) where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used, the nature of the chemical treatment or additive and the approximate ratio between the weight of clusters of pure seeds and the total weight; and

• (b) be a minimum size of 110 millimetres by 67 millimetres; and

• (c) be coloured brown.

Official label for a package of a varietal association of seed

Importation from outside the European Union

6A

Seed imported from a country granted equivalence must be labelled with a label approved by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development for the varietal certification on the control of seed moving in international trade.

Mixtures

Exception for scientific purposes or selection work

Exception for test and trial seed

Exception for conservation varieties

Varietal associations

General exemptions

Marketing of officially certified lower germination seed

Marketing of early movement seed

Requirement for homogeneity

Certification and labelling for export

13A

• (1) The Scottish Ministers may certify the quality of any seed intended for export.

• (2) Following certification in accordance with paragraph (1), any seed exported must be labelled with a label approved by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development for the varietal certification on the control of seed moving in international trade.

Pests in the crop

Pests in the seed

Importation from a country granted equivalence

Certification in a Crown Dependency or a country granted equivalence

25A

Any seed certified and labelled in a Crown Dependency or a country granted equivalence under legislation recognised by the Scottish Ministers to have equivalent effect to these Regulations may be marketed in Scotland.

Transitional provision for official labels on IP completion day

25B

A label pre-printed before IP completion day which at the date on which it was printed was an official label for the purposes of these Regulations is to be treated as an official label for a package of Basic Seed, Seed of a Certified Generation, Commercial Seed, seed of a Conservation Variety or a varietal association of seed, for the purposes of any use of that label before the end of the period of twelve months beginning with the day after the day on which IP completion day falls.

Amendment to the Seeds (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2002

Revocations and transitional provisions

Applications for seed harvested outside the United Kingdom