{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beet-seeds-regulations-1993/schedule-4/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beet-seeds-regulations-1993/schedule-4/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2006",
  "legislation_title": "The Beet Seeds Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beet-seeds-regulations-1993",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Isolation distances",
  "text": "The minimum distances from neighbouring pollen sources shall be:\nCrop\nMinimum distance\nThe above distances can be disregarded if there is sufficient protection from any undesirable foreign pollinator. No isolation is necessary between seed crops using the same pollinator.\nThe ploidy of both seed-bearing and pollen-shedding components of seed-producing crops is to be established by reference to the Common Catalogue or National List.\nIf this information is not included for any variety, the ploidy is to be regarded as unknown, and a minimum isolation distance of 600 metres is required.\n1 For the production of Basic Seed: from any pollen sources of the genus Beta\n1,000 m\n2 For the production of Certified Seed:\n(a) of sugar beet:\nfrom any pollen sources of the genus Beta not included below\n1,000 m\nthe intended pollinator or one of the intended pollinators being diploid, from tetraploid sugar beet pollen sources\n600 m\nthe intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from diploid sugar beet pollen sources\n600 m\nfrom sugar beet pollen sources, the ploidy of which is unknown\n600 m\nthe intended pollinator or one of the intended pollinators being diploid, from diploid sugar beet pollen sources\n300 m\nthe intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from tetraploid sugar beet pollen sources\n300 m\nbetween two sugar beet seed production fields in which male sterility is not used\n300 m\n(b) of fodder beet:\nfrom any pollen sources of the genus Beta not included below\n1,000 m\nthe intended pollinator or one of the pollinators being diploid, from tetraploid fodder beet pollen sources\n600 m\nthe intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from diploid fodder beet pollen sources\n600 m\nfrom fodder beet pollen sources, the ploidy of which is unknown\n600 m\nthe intended pollinator or one of the pollinators being diploid, from diploid fodder beet pollen sources\n300 m\nthe intended pollinator being exclusively tetraploid, from tetraploid fodder beet pollen sources\n300 m\nbetween two fodder beet seed production fields in which male sterility is not used\n300 m",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2006/schedule/4/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:10.034931+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}