{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-1955/annex",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-1955/annex.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2015/1955",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2015/1955 of 29 October 2015 amending Annexes I and II to Council Directive 66/402/EEC on the marketing of cereal seed (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-1955",
  "path": "annex",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Annexes I and II to Directive 66/402/EEC are amended as follows:\n(1) Annex I is amended as follows:\n(a) The first sentence of point 5 is replaced by the following: ‘Crops to produce certified seed of hybrids of Avena nuda, Avena sativa, Avena strigosa, Oryza sativa, Triticum aestivum, Triticum durum, Triticum spelta and self-pollinating xTriticosecale and crops to produce certified seed of hybrids of Hordeum vulgare by means of a technique other than Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (CMS)’.\n(b) The following point is inserted after point 5:\n‘5a.\nCrops to produce basic and certified seed of hybrids of Hordeum vulgare by means of the technique of CMS:\n(a) The crop shall conform to the following standards as regards distances from neighbouring sources of pollen which may result in undesirable foreign pollination:\nCrop\nMinimum distance\nFor the production of basic seed\n100 m\nFor the production of certified seed\n50 m\n(b) The crop shall have sufficient varietal identity and purity as regards the characteristics of the components.\nIn particular the crop shall conform to the following standards:\n(i) The percentage by number of plants which are obviously not being true to type shall not exceed:\nfor the crops used to produce basic seed, 0,1 % for the maintainer and the restorer line and 0,2 % for the CMS female component,\nfor the crops used to produce certified seed, 0,3 % for the restorer and the CMS female component and 0,5 % in case the CMS female component is a single hybrid.\n(ii) The level of male sterility of the female component shall be at least:\n99,7 % for crops used to produce basic seed,\n99,5 % for crops used to produce certified seed.\n(iii) The requirements of points (i) and (ii) shall be examined in official post-control test.\n(c) Certified seed may be produced in mixed cultivation of a female male-sterile component with a male component which restores fertility.’\n(2) Annex II is amended as follows:\n(a) Point 1.C is replaced by the following:\n‘C.\nHybrids of Avena nuda, Avena sativa, Avena strigosa, Hordeum vulgare, Oryza sativa, Triticum aestivum, Triticum durum, Triticum spelta, and self-pollinating xTriticosecale\nThe minimum varietal purity of the seed of the category certified seed shall be 90 %.\nIn case of Hordeum vulgare produced by means of CMS, it shall be 85 %. Impurities other than the restorer shall not exceed 2 %.\nThe minimum varietal purity shall be examined in official post-control test on an appropriate proportion of samples.’\n(b) The title of point 1.E of Annex II is replaced by the following:\n‘E.\nHybrids of Secale cereale and CMS-hybrids of Hordeum vulgare ’.",
  "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/2015/1955/annex",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:37.035358+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."
}