{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/annex-I/section-3/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/annex-I/section-3/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1968/193",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 9 April 1968 on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine (68/193/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193",
  "path": "annex/I/section/3/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Sampling and testing shall not be carried out when the official control authority concludes on the basis of an official inspection that the soil is free from any pests which may host the viruses listed in Section 7.",
  "text": "Sampling and testing shall also not be carried out where vines have not been grown in the soil of production for a period of at least five years and where there is no doubt concerning the absence in that soil of the pests which may host the viruses listed in Section 7.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/177 of 11 February 2020 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC and 2002/57/EC, Commission Directives 93/49/EEC and 93/61/EEC and Implementing Directives 2014/21/EU and 2014/98/EU as regards pests of plants on seeds and other plant reproductive material (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1968/193/annex/I/section/3/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:54.494726+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."
}