shall, during the first quarter of each year, inform the designated national authority of the exporter’s Member State regarding the quantity of the chemical, as a substance and as contained in mixtures or in articles, shipped to each Party or other country during the preceding year.

Derogation from the normal rules was necessary as the components of those mixtures do not always comply with some of the general EU marketing rules for seeds, e.g. varietal identity and purity.

Preliminary drying of the surface, ‘settling’ of the ingredients within the sticks.

non-compound foods and mixtures such as, but not exclusively, fresh, dried or frozen spices and/or herbs, mixtures of tea and mixtures for infusion as such as long as they have not been used as food ingredients.

(i) taxation on the components has been paid previously; and

"- where fruit, vegetables or mushrooms, none of which significantly predominates in terms of weight and which are used in proportions that are likely to vary, are used in a mixture as ingredients of a foodstuff, they may be grouped together in the list of ingredients under the designation 'fruit', 'vegetables' or 'mushrooms' followed by the phrase 'in varying proportions', immediately followed by a list of the fruit, vegetables or mushrooms present; in such cases, the mixture shall be included in the list of ingredients in accordance with the first subparagraph, on the basis of the total weight of the fruit, vegetables or mushrooms pre ...[+++]sent,";