Article 6 Compulsory statements

F1Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authority, in order to satisfy the requirements of Article 9, from using any power the appropriate authority has to prescribe that the indication of the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contents of fertilisers placed on F2the market is to be expressed in the following way:

Where the option is chosen to prescribe that the phosphorus and potassium contents be expressed in the form of elements, all references in the Annexes to the oxide form shall be read as being in elemental form and the numerical values shall be converted using the following factors:

F3Nothing in this Regulation prevents the appropriate authority from using any power the appropriate authority has to prescribe that the calcium, magnesium, sodium and sulphur contents of secondary nutrient fertilisers and, where the conditions of Article 17 are fulfilled, of primary nutrient fertilisers placed on F4the market are to be expressed:

To convert the calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, sodium oxide and sulphur trioxide contents into calcium, magnesium, sodium and sulphur contents, the following factors shall be used:

For the calculated oxide or elemental content, the figure declared shall be rounded to the nearest decimal place.

F5The appropriate authority shall not prevent the placing on the market of an ‘F6UK fertiliser’ labelled in both of the forms mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2.

The content of one or more of the micro-nutrients boron, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, or zinc in the F7UK fertilisers belonging to the types of fertilisers listed in sections A, B, C and D of Annex I shall be declared where the following conditions are fulfilled:

Where the micro-nutrients are the normal ingredients of the raw materials intended to supply primary (N, P, K) and secondary (Ca, Mg, Na, S) nutrients, they may be declared, provided that these micro-nutrients are present at least in the minimum quantities specified in sections E.2.2 and E.2.3 of Annex I.

The micro-nutrient content shall be declared in the following manner:

Where a micro-nutrient is totally water-soluble, only the water-soluble content shall be declared.

Where a micro-nutrient is chemically linked with an organic molecule, the content of the micro-nutrient present in the fertiliser shall be declared immediately following the water-soluble content as a percentage by mass of the product, followed by one of the terms ‘chelated by’, or ‘complexed by’, with the name of the organic molecule as set out in section E.3 of Annex I. The name of the organic molecule may be replaced by its initials.