{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/article-18a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/article-18a.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": "article/18a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17(2) , a Member State may, if it so requests, be wholly or partially released from the obligation to apply this Directive with the exception, however, of Articles 12 (1) and 12a, in so far as the growing of vines and the marketing of propagation material are of minimal economic importance in its territory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Council Directive of 22 March 1971 amending the Directive of 9 April 1968 on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine (71/140/EEC)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Directive of 9 December 1974 amending Directive No 68/193/EEC on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine (74/648/EEC)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Directive 2002/11/EC of 14 February 2002 amending Directive 68/193/EEC on the marketing of material for the vegetative propagation of the vine and repealing Directive 74/649/EEC."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1968/193/article/18a",
    "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."
}