{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-402/annex-I/division-5a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-402/annex-I/division-5a.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1966/402",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed (66/402/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-402",
  "path": "annex/I/division/5a",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "5a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Crops to produce basic and certified seed of hybrids of Hordeum vulgare by means of the technique of CMS:\n(a) The crop shall conform to the following standards as regards distances from neighbouring sources of pollen which may result in undesirable foreign pollination:\nCrop\nMinimum distance\nFor the production of basic seed\n100 m\nFor the production of certified seed\n50 m\n(b) The crop shall have sufficient varietal identity and purity as regards the characteristics of the components.\nIn particular the crop shall conform to the following standards:\n(i) The percentage by number of plants which are obviously not being true to type shall not exceed:\nfor the crops used to produce basic seed, 0,1 % for the maintainer and the restorer line and 0,2 % for the CMS female component,\nfor the crops used to produce certified seed, 0,3 % for the restorer and the CMS female component and 0,5 % in case the CMS female component is a single hybrid.\n(ii) The level of male sterility of the female component shall be at least:\n99,7 % for crops used to produce basic seed,\n99,5 % for crops used to produce certified seed.\n(iii) The requirements of points (i) and (ii) shall be examined in official post-control test.\n(c) Certified seed may be produced in mixed cultivation of a female male-sterile component with a male component which restores fertility.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Directive 2009/74/EC of 26 June 2009 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 2002/55/EC and 2002/57/EC as regards the botanical names of plants, the scientific names of other organisms and certain Annexes to Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC and 2002/57/EC in the light of developments of scientific and technical knowledge (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2015/1955 of 29 October 2015 amending Annexes I and II to Council Directive 66/402/EEC on the marketing of cereal seed (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1966/402/annex/I/division/5a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:55.103697+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."
}