{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-402/article-23a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1966-402/article-23a.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": "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 the provisions of this Directive, with the exception of Article 14 (1):\n(a) in respect of the following species:\ncanary grass,\nsorghum,\nsudan grass;\n(b) in respect of other species which are 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 13 June 1988 amending Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC, 70/457/EEC and 70/458/EEC on the marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal seed, seed potatoes, seed of oil and fibre plants and vegetable seed and on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species (88/380/EEC)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1966/402/article/23a",
    "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."
}