Rootstocks not belonging to a variety
- Only market rootstock CAC material that meets species, health, defect and production site standards
Welsh Statutory Instrument
2017
United Kingdom
The Marketing of Fruit Plant and Propagating Material (Wales) Regulations 2017
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Schedules
Trueness to the description of the variety
- Regularly check your CAC fruit material matches its variety description
Health requirements
- Ensure CAC material is free from RNQPs through inspection and testing
A supplier’s document accompanying CAC material must—
- Include all required particulars on your CAC supplier's document
The information and particulars required in a supplier’s document must...
- Print supplier documents clearly in English
Health requirements: pre-basic material and pre-basic mother plants
- Ensure pre-basic fruit plant material is free from specific pests and sample/test when required
Requirements concerning defects likely to impair quality
- Ensure pre-basic plants and material are practically free from defects by visual inspection
Requirements concerning multiplication, renewal and propagation of pre-basic mother plants
- Follow protocols when multiplying, renewing or propagating pre-basic mother plants
Propagating material (other than basic mother plants and rootstocks not belonging to a variety)
- Remove non-compliant basic mother plants or material from other basic stock
Rootstock not belonging to a variety
- Ensure non-variety rootstock for basic material meets species, health and production standards
Health requirements: basic mother plant or basic material
- Ensure basic mother plants are free from regulated non‑quarantine pests
Propagating material (other than mother plants) and fruit plants
- Ensure certified fruit plants meet strict health and identity standards
Rootstock not belonging to a variety
- Remove non‑compliant rootstock from certified plant area
Health requirements: certified mother plants and material
- You must ensure certified mother plants are pest-free
Soil requirements; certified mother plants and material
- Grow certified mother plants and material in pest-free soil
Propagating material (other than mother plants and rootstocks)
- Remove non-compliant pre-basic propagating material from other pre-basic stock
Rootstocks not belonging to a variety
- Remove non-compliant pre-basic rootstock from vicinity of other pre-basic material
Verification of trueness to the description of the variety
- Verify that pre-basic mother plants and material match their variety description
Maintenance requirements: pre-basic material and pre-basic mother plants
- Maintain pre-basic mother plants and material under strict conditions
Health requirements: candidate pre-basic mother plants and pre-basic mother plants produced by renewal
- Ensure pre-basic mother plants are pest-free via inspection and testing
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Conditions for CAC material (other than rootstocks not belonging to a variety)
Requirements concerning defects likely to impair quality
Requirements concerning production site
An official label used in relation to pre-basic material must...
A supplier’s document accompanying CAC material produced in Wales may...
An official label used in relation to basic material must...
An official label used in relation to certified material must...
An official label must— (a) not have been previously used;...
The information and particulars required on an official label must...
An official label may contain such further particulars as the...
In this Part, the “crop inspection certificate number” means the...
A supplier’s document affixed to CAC material in the form...
Interpretation
Application for registration with an official description
Registration
Register of varieties
Additional requirements for products to be used as genetically modified food or feed
Growing trials
Duration and renewal of registration
Removal from register
Interpretation
Soil requirements; pre-basic material
Requirements concerning production site
Soil requirements; basic material
Maintenance requirements: basic mother plants and basic material
Conditions for multiplication: basic mother plants
Official inspections
Requirements for the acceptance of a pre-basic mother plant
Requirements for the acceptance of a rootstock not belonging to a variety
Modifications to Annex 1
Modifications to Annex 2
Modifications to Annex 4
Varieties that may be marketed
- Provide supplier's document for CAC material marketed under paragraph 2(e)
Labelling, sealing and packaging of certified plant material
- Label, seal and package certified fruit plant material correctly before marketing
Registration of suppliers
- Register with Welsh Ministers before marketing fruit plant material
Register of suppliers
- Notify Welsh Ministers of changes to your registered supplier details
Suppliers: plan to identify and monitor production process
- Create a plan to identify and monitor critical points in plant production
Suppliers: notification requirements
- Report plant pests and RNQPs, and follow inspector's instructions
Suppliers: record keeping
- Keep records of plant material sales, deliveries, production and pests
Browse 24 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Title, commencement and application
Interpretation: general
Interpretation: Directives
Plant material to which these Regulations apply
Marketing of plant material
Exceptions
References to variety of plant material
Certification of plant material
Appeals
Inspectors
Entry and inspection of land and premises
Search and examination of items on land and premises
Information notice
Prohibition on movement notice
Enforcement and prohibition notice
Appeals against notices
Compliance with notices
Offences and penalties
Offences by bodies corporate
Notices and authorisations
Arrangements for official measures
Transitional provision for plant material from parent plant existing pre-commencement
Transitional provision for supplier’s documents affixed to CAC material
Revocation
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