Paragraph 5 Official labels: general requirements

(1)

An official label is a label supplied by, or on behalf of, the Department.

(2)

It must be on the outside of the package.

(3)

It must not have been previously used.

(4)

It must be adhesive, or secured by a sealing device approved by the Department.

F1(5)

It must—

(a)

in the case of cereal seed, vegetable seed, beet seed or oil and fibre plant seed, be in one of the official languages of the European Union; or

(b)

in the case of fodder seed, English.

(6)

It must be at least 110mm x 67mm.

(7)

It must have an officially assigned serial number.

(8)

It must be fixed to the package by an authorised officer of the Department, a licensed seed sampler or any person being supervised by such a person.

(9)

By way of derogation from the above, in the case of cereal seed, fodder seed and oil and fibre seed, classified in each case as CS, C1, C2 or C3, the whole bag may be used as the label, provided that this is done with the approval of the Department and the bag is the same colour as is required for the label.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 3 para. 5(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Seed Marketing and Fertilisers (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/319), regs. 1, 3(g)(i)