30As the Commission has observed, it is apparent from the wording of heading 1209 (‘Seeds, fruits and spores, of a kind used for sowing’) that this heading relates only to plant matter having the ability to germinate and create a new plant. By contrast, heading 1212, which covers, inter alia, ‘fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products ..., of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included’, is a residual category covering plant seeds which are intended, not to be sown, but for human consumption.
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