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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-1027/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2018/1027",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1027 of 19 July 2018 amending Council Directive 66/402/EEC as regards isolation distances for Sorghum spp. (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-1027",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1027\nof 19 July 2018\namending Council Directive 66/402/EEC as regards isolation distances for Sorghum spp.\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 66/402/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of cereal seed, and in particular Article 21a thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe conditions for seed production provided for in Directive 66/402/EEC are based on the international standards established by the Seed Scheme of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).\n(2)\nAt the 2017 Annual Meeting of the OECD on Seed Schemes, the standard for isolation distances for the cultivation of Sorghum spp. was amended especially to take into account areas where the presence of S. halepense or S. sudanense is a particular cross-pollination issue.\n(3)\nDirective 66/402/EEC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(4)\nThe measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2309/66."
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  "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."
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