{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-1610/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-1610/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1996/1610",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1610/96 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 1996 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for plant protection products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-1610",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "A plant protection product may, under the terms and conditions provided for in this Regulation, be the subject of a certificate if it is—\n(a)) protected by a patent; and\n(b)) the subject of a GB or NI authorization prior to being placed on the market as a plant protection product.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 22 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1471, regs. 1(2), 2(4) (with reg. 7)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1996/1610/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:59:06.939168+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."
}