{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-145/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-145/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/145",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 2009/145/EC of 26 November 2009 providing for certain derogations, for acceptance of vegetable landraces and varieties which have been traditionally grown in particular localities and regions and are threatened by genetic erosion and of vegetable varieties with no intrinsic value for commercial crop production but developed for growing under particular conditions and for marketing of seed of those landraces and varieties (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-145",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Exclusion of acceptance",
  "text": "A variety developed for growing under particular conditions shall not be accepted for inclusion in the national catalogue of varieties if:\n(a) it is already listed in the common catalogue of varieties of vegetable species as a variety other than a variety developed for growing under particular conditions, or it was deleted from that common catalogue of varieties of vegetable species within the last 2 years, or the period granted under Article 15(2) of Directive 2002/55/EC expired less than 2 years ago; or\n(b) it is protected by a Community plant variety right, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2100/94, by a national plant variety right, or if an application for such rights is pending.",
  "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/2009/145/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:04.718427+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."
}