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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-523/attachment-1/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-523/attachment-1/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2005/523",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 30 May 2005 approving the accession of the European Community to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, as revised at Geneva on 19 March 1991 (2005/523/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-523",
  "path": "attachment/1/article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exceptions to the breeder’s right",
  "text": "1. (Compulsory exceptions) The breeder’s right shall not extend to:\n(i) acts done privately and for non-commercial purposes;\n(ii) acts done for experimental purposes;\nand\n(iii) acts done for the purpose of breeding other varieties, and, except where the provisions of Article 14(5) apply, acts referred to in Article 14(1) to (4) in respect of such other varieties.\n2. (Optional exception) Notwithstanding Article 14, each Contracting Party may, within reasonable limits and subject to the safeguarding of the legitimate interests of the breeder, restrict the breeder’s right in relation to any variety in order to permit farmers to use for propagating purposes, on their own holdings, the product of the harvest which they have obtained by planting, on their own holdings, the protected variety or a variety covered by Article 14(5)(a)(i) or (ii).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2005/523/attachment/1/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:51.309805+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."
}