{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-miscellaneous-amendments-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-miscellaneous-amendments-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-1/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-miscellaneous-amendments-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Existing guidance",
  "text": "(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies to a guidance document which relates to Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before IP completion day , where—\n(a) before IP completion day , the guidance document was noted by the Committee, and\n(b) immediately before IP completion day , that guidance document had not been withdrawn or replaced.\n(2) A guidance document to which this sub-paragraph applies is taken to have been issued by each competent authority in relation to its constituent territory in accordance with Article 77(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.\n(3) Where the guidance document to which sub-paragraph (2) applies relates to scientific methods referred to in Article 4(2)(a) or (3)(b) or (e) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, those methods are taken to have been accepted by each competent authority in accordance with Article 4(8).\n(4) In sub-paragraph (1)(a), “the Committee” means the Standing Committee described in Article 79(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 as it had effect immediately before IP completion day .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Pesticides (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1376), regs. 1(4), 3(21)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 15 in force at 31.12.20 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/556/schedule/1/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:44:44.759512+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."
}