{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2020-432/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2020-432/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2020/432",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/432 of 23 March 2020 amending Council Directive 2002/55/EC with regard to the definition of vegetables and the list of genera and species in Article 2(1)(b) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2020-432",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2020/432\nof 23 March 2020\namending Council Directive 2002/55/EC with regard to the definition of vegetables and the list of genera and species in Article 2(1)(b)\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 2002/55/EC of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of vegetable seed, and in particular Article 2(2) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nIn Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/990, which amended Article 2(1)(b) of Directive 2002/55/EC, the definition of ‘vegetables’ preceding the table in that Article was erroneously deleted. As a result, Article 2(1)(b) of Directive 2002/55/EC no longer contains a definition of ‘vegetables’, which is an essential part of that Directive.\n(2)\nDirective 2002/55/EC should therefore be corrected accordingly.\n(3)\nFor reasons of legal certainty, the transposition date set out in this Directive should match the transposition date set out in Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/990.\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. 33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Directive (EU) 2019/990 of 17 June 2019 amending the list of genera and species in Article 2(1)(b) of Council Directive 2002/55/EC, in Annex II to Council Directive 2008/72/EC and in the Annex to Commission Directive 93/61/EEC (OJ L 160, 18.6.2019, p. 14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2020/432/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:23.398716+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."
}