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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beet-seeds-amendment-england-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/1791",
  "legislation_title": "The Beet Seeds (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beet-seeds-amendment-england-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Beet Seeds Regulations 1993, S.I. 1993/2006, as amended by S.I. 1997/616 and 1999/1861 (the 1993 Regulations), in so far as they extend to England. Similar Regulations are being made to amend the 1993 Regulations in so far as they extend to Scotland and are being considered by the competent authorities in Wales and Northern Ireland.\nThe amendments to the 1993 Regulations give effect in England to Council Directive 98/95/EC (OJ No. L25, 1.2.1999, p.1) in respect of the consolidation of the internal market, genetically modified plant resources and plant genetic resources and Council Directive 98/96/EC (OJ No. L25, 1.2.1999, p.27) amending, as regards unofficial field inspections, directives in respect of the marketing of seeds and the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species. The directives in respect of the marketing of seeds amended by Council Directive 98/95/EC and Council Directive 98/96/EC include Council Directive 66/400/EEC (OJ No. L125, 11.7.66, p.2290) on the marketing of beet seed (last amended by Commission Directive 98/96/EC).\nThese amending Regulations—\n(a) amend definitions in the 1993 Regulations, including the definitions of “marketing\" and “official examination\", and remove the definition of small packages;\n(b) include provisions in regulation 5 in relation to marketing and marketing authorisations, tests and trials, seed as grown, selection work and other scientific purposes; and make consequential amendments to regulation 4;\n(c) include in regulation 5 provision in relation to the marketing of genetically modified beet seeds;\n(d) amend regulations 8 and 9 to remove provisions in respect of small packages and amend regulation 9 to make provision in relation to clear indications for genetically modified varieties; and\n(e) amend Schedule 6 to make provision for the supply of information about imported seeds and remove provisions in respect of small packages.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1791/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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