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Paragraph B OFFICIAL LABEL FOR A PACKAGE OF PRE-BASIC SEED

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(a)

Prescribed contents

1.

Certifying Authority and Member State or their mark.

2.

Reference number of the lot.

3.

Kind.

4.

Month and year when officially sealed.

5.

Variety, or inbred line of maize.

6.

“Pre-basic Seed”.

7.

Country of production.

8.

Declared net or gross weight or declared number of seeds.

9.

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.

10.

Number of generations preceding seed of the categories “Certified Seed” or “Certified Seed 1st Generation”.

11.

For hybrid varieties of maize: “hybrid”.

(b)

Minimum size of label—110 mmx67 mm.

(c)

The label shall be coloured white with a diagonal violet line.