{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2019-1985/introduction",
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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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1985\nof 28 November 2019\namending 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\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 2002/53/EC of 13 June 2002 on the common catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species, and in particular Article 7(2)(a) and (b) thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 2002/55/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed, and in particular Article 7(2)(a) and (b) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Directives 2003/90/EC and 2003/91/EC were adopted to ensure that the varieties the Member States include in their national catalogues comply with the protocols established by the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) as regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination of the various species and the minimum conditions for examining the varieties, as far as such protocols had been established. For the species not covered by CPVO protocols those Directives provide that guidelines of the International Union for Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) are to apply.\n(2)\nSince the last amendment to Directives 2003/90/EC and 2003/91/EC by Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/114, the CPVO has established further protocols and has updated existing ones.\n(3)\nDirectives 2003/90/EC and 2003/91/EC 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": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 193, 20.7.2002, p. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Commission Directive 2003/90/EC of 6 October 2003 setting out implementing measures for the purposes of Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/53/EC 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 (OJ L 254, 8.10.2003, p. 7)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Commission Directive 2003/91/EC of 6 October 2003 setting out implementing measures for the purposes of Article 7 of Council Directive 2002/55/EC as regards the characteristics to be covered as a minimum by the examination and the minimum conditions for examining certain varieties of vegetable species (OJ L 254, 8.10.2003, p. 11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/114 of 24 January 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 (OJ L 23, 25.1.2019, p. 35)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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