{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-891/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-891/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/891",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/891 of 13 March 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the fruit and vegetables and processed fruit and vegetables sectors and supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to penalties to be applied in those sectors and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-891",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Minimum length of membership",
  "text": "1. The minimum membership period of a producer shall not be less than one year.\n2. Resignation from membership shall be notified to the producer organisation in writing. Subject to paragraph 3, resignation from membership will take effect:\n(a) if notice of resignation is received by the producer organisation on or before 30 September of a given calendar year (or such earlier date as may be set in the producer organisation's membership agreement in accordance with paragraph 3), on 1 January of the following year;\n(b) if notice of resignation is received by the producer organisation after 30 September of a given calendar year (or such earlier date as may be set in the producer organisation's membership agreement in accordance with paragraph 3), on 1 January of the year after the following year.\n(3.) The membership agreement of a producer organisation may require notice of resignation to be given before 30 September (but no earlier than 30 June) of the year before that in which resignation is intended to take effect.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 6(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(6)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2017/891/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:54.547934+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."
}