
Article 1 
Member States may authorise their own producers to place on the market small packages of mixtures of standard seed of species listed in Article 2(1)(b) of Directive 2002/55/EC. Such small packages may only contain different varieties of the same species.
Article 2 
The small packages referred to in Article 1 may contain seed up to a net weight as laid down in Article 2(1)(g) of Directive 2002/55/EC.
Article 3 
Member States shall ensure that small packages, as referred to in Article 1, bear a supplier’s label or a printed or stamped notice.
This label or that notice shall contain the following information:

((a)) the words ‘EU rules and standards’;
((b)) the name and address or the identification mark of the person responsible for affixing the label;
((c)) the year of sealing expressed as: ‘sealed… [year]’, or the year of the last sampling for the purposes of the last testing of germination expressed as: ‘sampled… [year]’; the indication ‘use before … [date]’ may be added;
((d)) the words ‘mixture of varieties of … [name of the species]’;
((e)) the denomination of the varieties;
((f)) the proportion of the varieties, expressed as net weight or as number of seeds;
((g)) the reference number of the lot given by the person responsible for affixing the labels;
((h)) the net or gross weight or number of seeds;
((i)) where weight is indicated and granulated pesticides, pelleting substances or other solid additives are used, the nature of the chemical treatment or additive and the approximate ratio between the weight of clusters or pure seeds and the total weight.
Article 4 
Member States shall report to the Commission on the application of this Decision by 31 December 2012.
Article 5 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 March 2011.
For the Commission
John DALLI
Member of the Commission