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The Sierra Leone Seed Certification Agency Regulations, 2020. Statutory Instrument no. 8 of 2020.

Country/Territory
Sierra Leone
Document type
Regulation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXLXJ, no. 21 of 14th April, 2020.
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Certification Crops/grasses Inspection International trade Packaging/labelling Plant production Plant variety Planting material/seeds Registration
Geographical area
Africa, Least Developed Countries, North Atlantic, Western Africa
Abstract

These Regulations, made under section 91 of the Sierra Leone Seed Certification Agency Act, no. 5 of 2018, provides for seeds certification and related matters. The Regulations concern: prescribed seeds; validity of certification and quality declaration; crop certification; seed sampling; seed labelling; storage and selling of seeds; functions of the National Seed Testing Station; registration of seed growers; license for seed inspectors, testing, analysts, sellers and processing; import and export of seeds; release of plant variety, release of foreign variety.

Full text
English
Website
www.parliament.gov.sl