Use of labels
Article 52
1. The labels referred to in Article 2(6) shall be used only for the movement between duly registered scientists and scientific institutions of non-commercial loans, donations and exchanges of herbarium specimens, preserved, dried or embedded museum specimens and live plant material for scientific study. 2. A registration number shall be attributed to the scientists and scientific institutions referred to in paragraph 1 by the management authority of the Member State in which they are located. That registration number shall contain five digits, the first two of which shall be the two-letter ISO country code for the Member State concerned and the last three a unique number assigned to each institution by the competent management authority. 3. The scientists and scientific institutions concerned shall complete boxes 1 to 5 of the label and, by the return of the part of the label provided for that purpose, immediately inform the management authority with which they are registered of all details about the use of every label.