S.L. 433.10 Art. 9National Register of approved basic material.

(1) The Directorate shall draw up a national register of the basic material of the various species approved in Malta. Full details of each unit of approval shall be recorded together with its unique register reference, in the national register.

(2) A summary of the national register in the form of a national list shall be drawn up by the Directorate and shall be available on request to the European Commission and the other Member States. For the categories "source-identified" and "selected", a summary of the units of approval within one region of provenance is permitted. The national list shall be presented for each unit of approval as referred to in regulation 7(2)(b) and specified for each category of forest reproductive material mentioned in regulation 3. This list shall be drawn up in a standardised form as described in Schedule II and shall be available as an electronic spreadsheet or database.

The following details shall be provided:

(a) botanical name;

(b) category;

(c) purpose;

(d) type of basic material;

(e) register reference or, where appropriate, summary thereof, or identity code for the region of provenance;

(f) location: a short name, if appropriate, and any one of the following sets of particulars:

(i) for the "source-identified" category: region of provenance and the latitudinal and longitudinal range;

(ii) for the "selected" category: region of provenance and the geographical position defined by latitude and longitude and the

(iv) for the "tested" category, the exact geographical position(s) where the basic material is maintained;

(g) altitude or altitudinal range;

(h) area: the size of a seed source(s), stand(s) or seed orchard(s);

(i) origin: it shall be stated whether the basic material is autochthonous/indigenous, non-autochthonous/non-indigenous or if the origin is unknown. For non-autochthonous/non-indigenous basic material, the origin shall be stated if known;

(j) in the case of material of the "tested" category, whether it is genetically-modified.