basic mother plantmeans a mother plant intendedfor the production of basic material;
candidate pre-basic mother plantmeans a mother plant which the supplier intends to have accepted as pre-basic mother plant;
categorymeans pre-basic material, basic material, certified material or CAC material;
certified mother plantmeans a mother plant intendedfor the production of certified material;
cryopreservationmeans the maintenance of plant material by cooling to ultra-low temperatures, in order to retain the viability of the material.
fruiting plantmeans a plant propagated from a mother plant and grown for the production of fruit in order to permit the verification of the varietal identity of that mother plant;
laboratorymeans any facility used for the testing of propagating material and fruit plants;
micropropagationmeans the multiplication of plant material in order to produce a large number of plants, using in vitro culture of differentiated vegetative buds or differentiated vegetative meristems taken from a plant;
mother plantmeans an identified plant intended for propagation;
multiplicationmeans vegetative production of mother plants in order to obtain a sufficient number of mother plants in the same category;
pestmeans any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products and listed in Annexes I, II and III;
practically free from defectsmeans that defects likely to impair the quality and usefulness of the propagating material or fruit plants, are present at a level equal to, or lower than, the level expected to result from good cultivating and handling practices, and that level is consistent with good cultivating and handling practices;
practically free from pestsmeans that the extent to which pests are present on the propagating material or fruit plants is sufficiently low to ensure acceptable quality and usefulness of the propagating material;
pre-basic mother plantmeans a mother plant intendedfor the production of pre-basic material;
renewal of a mother plantmeans replacing a mother plant by a plant vegetatively produced from it;
testmeans examination, other than visual inspection;
visual inspectionmeans the examination of plants or parts of plants using the unaided eye, lens, stereoscope or microscope;