{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/article-5d",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1968-193/article-5d.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/5d",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5d",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The Member States shall provide that acceptance of varieties be based on the results of official examinations, particularly growing trials, covering a sufficient number of characters for the variety to be described. The methods used for determining characters must be exact and reliable.\n2. The following shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 17(2) , account being taken of current scientific and technological knowledge:\n(a) the characters to be covered as a minimum by the examinations,\n(b) the minimum requirements for carrying out the examinations.\n3. If it is known that propagation material of a given variety is marketed in another country under a different name, that name shall also be indicated in the catalogue.",
  "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 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/5d",
    "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."
}