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Any person may produce seed and seedlings and propagate them directly or through third
persons in accordance with specifications approved by decree.
Article 8
To ensure the quality of seed and seedlings and protect them from diseases and insects that
are liable to be propagated within their environment, each producer or propagator shall be
required to have a disease-free woodyard and to establish a protection area around the nursery or
the fields reserved for the production and propagation of seed and seedlings, of which the width
shall be laid down by order of the Minister responsible for agriculture.
The nurseries and production and propagation fields shall also be subject to inspection by
the competent authority to ensure that they are free of quarantine organisms and any other plant
disease and to ensure the purity and originality of the variety.
In addition, the Minister responsible for agriculture may, by order and each time required
by the need, specify special methods for the production of certain seed and seedlings in
accordance with the nature and degree of their affection by their production environment.
CHAPTER III
MARKETING OF SEED AND SEEDLINGS
Article 9
Only those seed and seedlings of plant varieties entered in the official catalogue in one of
the categories referred to in Article 3 of this Law may be marketed.
The use of any notice or sign or any other signal such as to cause confusion in the mind of
the acquirer with regard to the designation of seed and seedlings or their purity or their origin or
their age or their phytosanitary status shall be prohibited.
Article 10
The Minister responsible for agriculture may, during exceptional circumstances, authorize
the marketing of seed and seedlings meeting special conditions laid down following the opinion
of the Technical Committee for Seed, Seedlings and New Plant Varieties.
The Minister responsible for agriculture may also authorize the marketing of seed and
seedlings that have been recently bred on condition that they be entered on a waiting list held by
the competent authority.
Entry in that list shall be made under conditions laid down by decree.
Article 11
Subject to the statutory provisions in force, the importing and marketing of seed and
seedlings shall be effected in accordance with the specifications approved by decree.
Article 12