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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1590/annex-I/division-4/division-4.1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/1590",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1590/2004 of 26 April 2004 establishing a Community programme on the conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1467/94 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1590",
  "path": "annex/I/division/4/division/4.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.1",
  "heading": "Crop genetic resources",
  "text": "1.. Development of a web-based, permanent and widely accessible network of national inventories on crop genetic resources (in situ and ex situ); maintenance and further improvement of Eurisco.\n2.. Information exchange on methods, techniques and experiences of on-farm activities, including utilisation and marketing concepts that may promote the use of under-utilised crops and contribute to the diversification of agriculture.\n3.. Inventory and documentation of in situ resources of wild crop relatives that are used or potentially useful for food and agriculture.\n4.. Establishment, maintenance and improvement of web-based European Central Crop Databases (ECCDBs) with characterisation and evaluation data and linked to the network of national inventories and to the Eurisco catalogue for the passport level data.\n5.. Establishment and coordination of permanent European ex situ collections based upon the existing national or institutional ex situ collections, implementing concepts for sharing of responsibilities for the conservation of crop genetic resources among European countries.\n6.. Establishment and coordination of a European network of conservation and demonstration fields/gardens of endangered and under-utilised crop genetic resources.\n7.. Characterisation and evaluation of crop genetic resources that could be of interest for European agriculture.\n8.. Collecting, in conformity with international law and obligations, of crop genetic resources that could be of interest for European agriculture.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1590/annex/I/division/4/division/4.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:17.737987+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."
}