{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2003-61/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2003-61/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2003/61",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 27 January 2003 authorising certain Member States to provide for temporary derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of seed potatoes originating in certain provinces of Canada (notified under document number C(2003) 334) (Only the Spanish, Greek, Italian and Portuguese texts are authentic) (2003/61/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2003-61",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Malta and Portugal are hereby authorised to provide for derogations from:\n(a) Article 4(1) of Directive 2000/29/EC, with regard to the prohibition referred to in point 10 of Part A of Annex III to that Directive;\n(b) Article 5(1) and the third indent of Article 13(1)(a), as regards the special requirements referred to in points 25.2 and 25.3 of part A, section I of Annex IV to Directive 2000/29/EC.\n2. The authorisation to provide for derogations referred to in paragraph 1 shall only apply:\n(a) to seed potatoes of the varieties ‘Atlantic’, ‘Donna’, ‘Kennebec’, ‘Russet Burbank’, ‘Sebago’ and ‘Shepody’, originating in the provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island in Canada (‘the seed potatoes’);\n(b) to seed potatoes that satisfy the conditions provided for in Articles 2 to 13 in addition to the requirements laid down in Annexes I, II and IV to Directive 2000/29/EC;\n(c) for the potato-marketing seasons from 1 February 2003 to 31 March 2003 , from 1 December 2003 to 31 March 2004 , from 1 December 2004 to 31 March 2005 , from 1 December 2005 to 31 March 2006 , from 1 December 2006 to 31 March 2007 , from 1 December 2007 to 31 March 2008 , from 1 December 2008 to 31 March 2009 , from 1 December 2009 to 31 March 2010 and from 1 December 2010 to 31 March 2011 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Decision of 25 November 2005 amending Decision 2003/61/EC authorising certain Member States to provide for temporary derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of seed potatoes originating in certain provinces of Canada (notified under document number C(2005) 4526) (Only the Spanish, Greek, Italian, Maltese and Portuguese texts are authentic) (2005/850/EC)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Decision of 26 November 2008 amending Decision 2003/61/EC authorising certain Member States to provide for temporary derogations from certain provisions of Council Directive 2000/29/EC in respect of seed potatoes originating in certain provinces of Canada (notified under document number C(2008) 7317) (Only the Greek, Spanish, Italian, Maltese and Portuguese texts are authentic) (2008/891/EC)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2003/61/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:18:25.561324+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."
}