# The Cereal Seeds Regulations 1993, Paragraph C: OFFICIAL LABEL FOR A PACKAGE OF BASIC SEED, CERTIFIED SEED, CERTIFIED SEED OF THE FIRST GENERATION OR CERTIFIED SEED OF THE SECOND GENERATION


(a) Prescribed contents
1. “EEC rules and standards”.
2. Certifying Authority and Member State or their mark.
3. Reference number of the lot.
4. Month and year when officially sealed.
5. Kind.
6. Variety, or inbred line of maize.
7. Category.
8. Country of production.
9. Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds.
10. Where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used the nature of the additive and the approximate ratio between the weight of pure seeds and the total weight.
11. In the case of varieties which are hybrids or inbred lines—
(a) for Basic Seed where the hybrid or inbred line to which the seed belongs has been officially accepted on a National List or the Common Catalogue, the name of this component, under which it has been officially accepted, with or without reference to the final variety, accompanied, in the case of hybrids or inbred lines which are intended solely as components for final varieties, by the word “component”;
(b) for Basic Seed in other cases, the name of the component to which the Basic Seed belongs, which may be given in code form, accompanied by a reference to the final variety, with or without reference to its function (male of female), and accompanied by the word “component”;
(c) for Certified Seed, the name of the variety to which the seed belongs, accom-panied by the word “hybrid”.
(b) Minimum size of the label—110 mmx67 mm.
(c) The label shall be coloured white for Basic Seed, blue for Certified Seed and Certified Seed of the First Generation and red for Certified Seed of the Second Generation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2005/schedule/6/paragraph/C (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cereal-seeds-regulations-1993/schedule-6/paragraph-C
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