{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-14/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-14/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1989/14",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive of 15 December 1988 determining the groups of varieties of spinach beet and beetroot referred to crop isolation conditions of Annex I to Council Directive 70/458/EEC on the marketing of vegetable seed (89/14/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-14",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Directive\nof 15 December 1988\ndetermining the groups of varieties of spinach beet and beetroot referred to crop isolation conditions of Annex I to Council Directive 70/458/EEC on the marketing of vegetable seed\n(89/14/EEC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 70/458/EEC of 29 September 1970 on the marketing of vegetable seed, as last amended by Directive 88/380/EEC,, and in particular the final sentence of Annex I (4) (A) thereof,\nWhereas Commission Directive 87/481/EEC amended the conditions laid down in Annex I (4) to Directive 70/458/EEC for crop isolation for the production of spinach beet seed and beetroot seed;\nWhereas, according to Directive 87/481/EEC, the minimum distance from neighbouring plants of the same sub-species which might result in undesirable foreign pollination depends on whether the spinach beet or beetroot crop is of a variety belonging to the same group of varieties as those plants;\nWhereas it is therefore necessary to determine the groups of varieties of spinach beet and beetroot referred to in Annex I (4) (A) of Directive 70/458/EEC;\nWhereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Seeds and Propagating Material for Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 225, 12. 10. 1970, p. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 187, 16. 7. 1988, p. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No L 273, 26. 9. 1987, p. 45."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1989/14/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:30.951020+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."
}