{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-fruit-plant-material-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marketing-of-fruit-plant-material-regulations-1995/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Description of plant material",
  "text": "(1) No supplier shall market plant material except with reference to its variety or, in the case of rootstocks which do not belong to a variety, to the appropriate species or interspecific hybrid.\n(2) Where a supplier markets plant material with reference to its variety, the reference shall be—\n(a) in the case of a commonly known variety which is the subject of a grant of plant breeders' rights, to the official denomination of the variety;\n(b) in the case of a variety which is the subject of an application for plant breeders' rights, to the breeders' reference or proposed name of the variety;\n(c) subject to paragraph (3) below, in the case of any other variety, based on the description of the variety on a written list kept by a supplier which includes—\n(i) the name of the variety and, where appropriate, its commonly known synonyms;\n(ii) a description of the variety, having regard to the Annex to Commission Directive 93/79/EEC;\n(iii) indications as to the maintenance of the variety and the propagation system applied; and\n(iv) any indications as to how the variety differs from the other varieties most closely resembling it.\n(3) Sub-paragraphs (2)(c)(iii) and (iv) above shall not apply to a supplier engaged only in the marketing of plant material.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/2653/regulation/8",
    "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."
}