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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-62/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2008/62",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-62",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Procedural requirements",
  "text": "By way of derogation from the first sentence of Article 7(1) of Directive 2002/53/EC, no official examination shall be required if the following information is sufficient for the decision on the acceptance of the conservation varieties:\n(a) the description of the conservation variety and its denomination;\n(b) the results of unofficial tests;\n(c) knowledge gained from practical experience during cultivation, reproduction and use, as notified by the applicant to the Member State concerned;\n(d) other information, in particular from the plant genetic resource authorities or from organisations recognised for this purpose by the Member States.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2008/62/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:20.164961+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."
}