{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-90/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-90/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2008/90",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2008/90/EC of 29 September 2008 on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production (Recast version)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-90",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Transposition",
  "text": "1. Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 March 2010 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles 1(2) and (3), 2, 3, 5, 6, 7(2), (3) and (4), 9(3), 12(2), 13(1), 16, and 21. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.\nThey shall apply those provisions from 30 September 2012.\n2. When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the Directive repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.\n3. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.",
  "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/2008/90/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:18.723497+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."
}