{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-fruit-plant-material-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-fruit-plant-material-regulations-1995/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/2653",
  "legislation_title": "The Marketing of Fruit Plant Material Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-fruit-plant-material-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“Directive 92/34/EEC” means Council Directive 92/34/EEC on the marketing of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production;\n“Directive 93/48/EEC” means Commission Directive 93/48/EEC setting out the schedule indicating the conditions to be met by fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production pursuant to Directive 92/34/EEC;\n“Directive 93/79/EEC” means Commission Directive 93/79/EEC setting out additional implementing provisions for lists of varieties of fruit plant propagating material and fruit plants, as kept by suppliers under Directive 92/34/EEC;\n“fruit plant” means a plant intended, after marketing, to be planted or replanted;\n“inspector” means any person authorised by the Minister to be an inspector for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“marketing” means the delivery, offer for sale, exposure for sale, sale and possession with a view to sale of plant material, and “market” and “marketed” shall be construed accordingly;\n“the Minister” means, as respects England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, as respects Scotland or Wales, the Secretary of State;\n“plant material” means fruit plants and seeds, parts of plants and all vegetative material, including rootstocks, intended for the propagation and production of fruit plants;\n“producer” means a supplier engaged in the production or reproduction of plant material;\n“responsible official body” means, as respects England and Wales, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, as respects Scotland, the Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department;\n“supplier” means any person professionally engaged in the production, reproduction, preservation, treatment or marketing of plant material.\n(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or a numbered schedule is a reference to the regulation or schedule so numbered in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L157, 10.6.92, p.10, as amended by Commission Decision 95/26/EC (OJ No. L36, 16.2.95, p.36)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L250, 7.10.93, p.1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L256, 14.10.93, p.25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2653/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:00:04.074180+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."
}