{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-1028/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-1028/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2018/1028",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1028 of 19 July 2018 correcting Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 amending Council Directive 66/401/EEC as regards the inclusion of new species and the botanical name of the species Lolium x boucheanum Kunth (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-1028",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2018/1028\nof 19 July 2018\ncorrecting Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 amending Council Directive 66/401/EEC as regards the inclusion of new species and the botanical name of the species Lolium x boucheanum Kunth\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 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seed, and in particular Article 21a thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDue to a clerical error in Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 which amended Directive 66/401/EEC, the footnote reference ‘(1)’ in Annex III to Directive 66/401/EEC was erroneously deleted from the entry ‘Poaceae (Gramineae)’. As a result, it is no longer possible for Member States to authorise the maximum lot weight to be increased to 25 tonnes where the supplier has been authorised for this purpose by the competent authority.\n(2)\nThe relevant Annex to Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 should therefore be corrected accordingly.\n(3)\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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2298/66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2016/2109 of 1 December 2016 amending Council Directive 66/401/EEC as regards the inclusion of new species and the botanical name of the species Lolium x boucheanum Kunth (OJ L 327, 2.12.2016, p. 59)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2018/1028/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:29.964029+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."
}