- (1) Grower responsibility: Maintain certification standards.
(2) Certifying agency responsibility:
- (a) The agency will inspect growth facilities and fields and to audit compliance with the grower developed BMPs and their effectiveness.
- (b) Mother plants are inspected within seven days before first cutting of daughters for certification.
- (c) Daughter plants are inspected within seven days after planting.
- (3) General requirements: Plant increase standards are described in WAC 16-302-880 (1)(c)(i), (ii), and (iii) (General planting stock certification standards for vegetatively propagated hemp).
(4) General inspection standards of plants:
- (a) Apparently free of diseases, insects, and other pests.
- (b) True-to-type characteristics.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 15.49.005, [15.49].021, [15.49].310, [15.49].370, and 15.140.030. WSR 21-20-101, § 16-302-890, filed 10/4/21, effective 11/4/21.]