{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1009/annex-II/part-II/division-1/division-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1009/annex-II/part-II/division-1/division-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/1009",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 laying down rules on the making available on the market of EU fertilising products and amending Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EC) No 1107/2009 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1009",
  "path": "annex/II/part/II/division/1/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Where the substance or one of the substances in the mixture is intended to enhance the long term availability to plants of micronutrients in the EU fertilising product, that substance shall be either a chelating agent or a complexing agent, and the following rules shall apply:",
  "text": "(a) The chelating agent shall be an organic substance consisting in a molecule which:\n(i) has two or more sites that donate electron pairs to a central transition metal cation (zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca) or cobalt (Co)), and\n(ii) is large enough to form a five- or six- membered cyclic structure.\nThe EU fertilising product shall remain stable in standard Hoagland solution at pH 7 and 8 for at least 3 days.\n(b) The complexing agent shall be an organic substance forming a flat or steric structure with one di- or tri- valent transition metal cation (zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) or cobalt (Co)).\nThe EU fertilising product shall remain stable in water solution at pH 6 and 7 for at least 1 day.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1009/annex/II/part/II/division/1/division/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:18.577135+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."
}