{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-208/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-208/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/208",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 208/2013 of 11 March 2013 on traceability requirements for sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-208",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:\n(a)‘sprouts’ means the product obtained from the germination of seeds and their development in water or another medium, harvested before the development of true leaves and which is intended to be eaten whole, including the seed;\n(b)‘batch’ means a quantity of sprouts or seeds intended for the production of sprouts, with the same taxonomic name, which is dispatched from the same establishment to the same destination on the same day. One or more batches can make up a consignment. However, seeds with a different taxonomic name, which are mixed in the same packaging and intended to be germinated together and sprouts thereof are also considered as one batch.\nIn addition the definition of ‘consignment’ in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No. 2017/625 shall apply for the purpose of this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Sprouts and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/464), regs. 1, 3A (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1504, regs. 1(2), 7(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/208/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:48.619866+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."
}