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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereal-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1091",
  "legislation_title": "The Cereal Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cereal-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which amend the Cereal Seeds Regulations 1985, implement article 3 of Commission Directive 87/120/EEC (OJ No. L49, 18.2.87, p. 42) in so far as it amends Annex III of Council Directive 66/402/EEC (OJ No. 125, 11.7.66, p. 2309/66) (OJ/SE 1965—66 p. 143) (as amended) on the marketing of cereal seeds by providing (1) that the maximum weight of a seed lot, set out in that Annex, from which a sample is to be drawn for certification shall not be exceeded by more than 5% and (2) that with effect from 1 July 1988 the maximum weight of such a seed lot (other than maize) will be 25 tonnes (regulation 2(3)(b)(i) and (ii)).\nThe other changes of substance made by these Regulations to the 1985 Regulations are:—\n(1) the inclusion of a provision enabling the Minister, by general licence, to authorise a person to market as Breeder’s Seed, Pre-Basic Seed, Basic Seed, Certified Seed of the First Generation or Certified Seed of the Second Generation, seeds which have failed in some respect to satisfy the requirements relating to the sampling of such seeds set out in Schedule 5 of the 1985 Regulations (regulation 2(2)): and\n(2) the inclusion of a requirement that a sample of seeds taken from a seed stream during processing for the purposes of an official examination shall be taken by an automatic sampling device approved by the Minister (regulation 2(3)(a)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1091/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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