# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 208/2013 of 11 March 2013 on traceability requirements for sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts (Text with EEA relevance), Article 4: Traceability requirements for imported seeds and sprouts

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Consignments of seeds intended for the production of sprouts and consignments of sprouts shall be accompanied, when imported into Great Britain, by a certificate as provided in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 211/2013.
2. The food business operator importing seeds or sprouts shall keep the certificate referred to in paragraph 1 for a sufficient time after the sprouts can be assumed to have been consumed.
3. All food business operator handling the imported seeds intended for the production of sprouts shall provide copies of the certificate referred to in paragraph 1 to all food business operators to which the seeds are dispatched until those seeds are received by the producer of the sprouts.
Where seeds intended for the production of sprouts are sold packaged at retail, all food business operators handling the imported seeds shall provide copies of the certificate referred to in paragraph 1 to all food business operators to which the seeds are dispatched until they are packaged for sale at retail.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/208/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-208/article-4
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