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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-1985/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2019/1985",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1985 of 28 November 2019 amending Directives 2003/90/EC and 2003/91/EC setting out implementing measures for the purposes of Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/53/EC and Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/55/EC respectively, as regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of agricultural plant species and vegetable species (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-1985",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 May 2020, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.\nThey shall apply those provisions from 1 June 2020.\nWhen Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2019/1985/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:25.019033+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."
}