{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-401/article-23a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-401/article-23a.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1966/401",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (66/401/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-401",
  "path": "article/23a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Upon application by a Member State, which will be dealt with as provided in Article 21, that State may be wholly or partially released from the obligation to apply this Directive in respect of certain species if seed of those species is not normally reproduced or marketed in its territory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Council Directive of 18 February 1969 amending the Council Directive of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed (69/63/EEC)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1966/401/article/23a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:55.382893+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."
}