# Commission Directive 2008/62/EC of 20 June 2008 providing for certain derogations for acceptance of agricultural landraces and varieties which are naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion and for marketing of seed and seed potatoes of those landraces and varieties (Text with EEA relevance), Article 3: Conservation variety

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Member States may accept in the national catalogues of varieties of agricultural plant species the landraces and varieties referred to in Article 1(1)(a) subject to the requirements provided for in Articles 4 and 5. Such landraces or varieties shall be referred to in the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species as ‘conservation varieties’.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2008/62/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-62/article-3
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