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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-fees-regulations-1995/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/888",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-fees-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Annex I application” means either of the following—\n(a) an application under regulation 4(1) of the principal Regulations for the inclusion of an active substance in Annex I; or\n(b) an application under regulation 4(2) of the principal Regulations for a variation of the conditions subject to which an active substance is included in Annex I;\n“biocontrol agent or pheromone application”—\n(a) in relation to an Annex I application, means an application relating to an active substance which is a biocontrol agent or a pheromone; and\n(b) in relation to an application for provisional approval, means an application relating to a plant protection product which includes active substances all of which are biocontrol agents or pheromones or an application the preliminary examination of which has revealed that no evaluation is required of the active substances included in it which are not biocontrol agents or pheromones;\n“data” means scientific evidence submitted in support of an application for approval under regulation 5 of the principal Regulations or in compliance with a requirement or condition specified in a provisional approval;\n“evaluation”, in relation to an Annex I application, an application for approval under regulation 5, 7, 8, 9 or 11 of the principal Regulations or an application for extension of use under regulation 10 of the principal Regulations, means an examination of an application and the information (including data) accompanying it leading to the granting or refusal of that application or, in the event of withdrawal of an application after the evaluation starts, leading to a discontinuance of the processing of that application;\n“the Ministry” means the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;\n“preliminary examination”, in relation to an Annex I application, an application under regulation 5, 7, 8, 9 or 11 of the principal Regulations or an application for extension of use under regulation 10 of the principal Regulations, means an examination of the documents included in an application to determine whether the evaluation of that application can proceed;\n“principal Regulations” means the Plant Protection Products Regulations 1995;\n“provisional approval” means an approval under regulation 7 of the principal Regulations;\n“resubmitted application” means an application relating to an active substance or plant protection product made following the making of an unsuccessful application relating to the same substance or product;\n“saving in costs”, in relation to a resubmitted application, means the saving in costs arising because, in evaluating the application, work done on the previous unsuccessful application does not have to be repeated and, where such saving is expressed as a percentage, the reference is to the saving as a percentage of the full costs of evaluating the application which would have been incurred had it been an original application; and\n“active substance”, “Annex I”, “approval”, “approved”, “the Directive”, “EEA State”, “plant protection product” and “substance” shall have the same meanings as in the principal Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/887."
    }
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/202",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/1112",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
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      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1228",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2760",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
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      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3430",
      "affecting_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1999"
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  "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."
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