{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-98/annex-IV/division-15/division-d/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-98/annex-IV/division-15/division-d/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2014/98",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive 2014/98/EU of 15 October 2014 implementing Council Directive 2008/90/EC as regards specific requirements for the genus and species of fruit plants referred to in Annex I thereto, specific requirements to be met by suppliers and detailed rules concerning official inspections",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-98",
  "path": "annex/IV/division/15/division/d/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Requirements with regard to the production site, place of production or area",
  "text": "(i) Diaporthe vaccinii Shear\npropagating material and fruit plants of the certified category shall be produced in areas known to be free from Diaporthe vaccinii Shear; or\nno symptoms of Diaporthe vaccinii Shear are observed at the production site over the last complete growing season.\n(ii) Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith & Townsend) Conn, Exobasidium vaccinii (Fuckel) Woronin and Godronia cassandrae (anamorph Topospora myrtilli) Peck\nthe percentage of propagating material and fruit plants of the certified category in the production site over the last complete growing season, showing symptoms of each of the following RNQPs shall not exceed:\n0,5 % in the case of:\nAgrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith & Townsend) Conn;\nGodronia cassandrae (anamorph Topospora myrtilli) Peck;\n1 % in the case of Exobasidium vaccinii (Fuckel) Woronin; and that propagating material and those fruit plants, and any surrounding host plants have been rogued out and destroyed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/177 of 11 February 2020 amending Council Directives 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 68/193/EEC, 2002/55/EC, 2002/56/EC and 2002/57/EC, Commission Directives 93/49/EEC and 93/61/EEC and Implementing Directives 2014/21/EU and 2014/98/EU as regards pests of plants on seeds and other plant reproductive material (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2014/98/annex/IV/division/15/division/d/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:40.967038+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."
}