{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-62/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-62/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1993/62",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 93/62/EEC of 5 July 1993 setting out the implementing measures concerning the supervision and monitoring of suppliers and establishments pursuant to Council Directive 92/33/EEC on the marketing of vegetable propagating and planting material, other than seed",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-62",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "As far as the identification of critical points in the production process referred to in the first indent of Article 5 (2) of Directive 92/33/EEC and the keeping of records referred to in the fourth indent of Article 5 (2) thereof are concerned, the responsible official body shall supervise and monitor the supplier to ensure that the supplier:\n(a) continues to take into account the following critical points, where appropriate:\nthe quality of the vegetable propagating and planting material utilized to start the production process;\nthe sowing, pricking-out, potting-up, and planting of vegetable propagating and planting material,\ncompliance with the conditions laid down in Articles 3, 4 and 5 of Council Directive 77/93/EEC,\nthe cultivation plan and method,\ngeneral crop care,\nthe multiplication operations,\nthe harvesting operations,\nhygiene,\ntreatments,\npackaging,\nstorage,\ntransport,\nadministration;\n(b) keeps records, with a view to having complete information available for the said responsible official bodies, on:\n(i) plants or other objects:\npurchased for storage or planting on the premises,\nunder production,\nor\ndispatched to others;\nand\n(ii) any chemical treatments which have been applied to the plants, and that he keeps related documents for at least one year;\n(c) is available personally or designates another person technically experienced in plant production and related plant-health matters, to liaise with the said responsible official bodies;\n(d) carries out visual inspections as necessary and at appropriate times in a manner accepted by the said responsible official bodies;\n(e) allows access by persons entitled to act for the said responsible official bodies, in particular for inspection and/or sampling purposes, and allows access to the records and related documents referred to in point (b);\n(f) otherwise cooperates with the said responsible official bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1993/62/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:18.395983+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."
}