{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1657",
  "legislation_title": "The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/plant-protection-products-sustainable-use-regulations-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The exemption",
  "text": "Regulation 9(1) does not apply in relation to a distributor—\n(a) if the distributor was a micro-distributor in its preceding financial year and the accounts for that period are closed;\n(b) if the distributor had an annual turnover which did not exceed 2 million euros in its preceding financial year; and\n(c) if the only plant protection products offered for sale by that distributor are for non-professional use and are not formulations classified as toxic, very toxic, carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction pursuant to Regulation 1272/2008.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 1(c) substituted (17.9.2018) by The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/942), regs. 1(2), 20(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1657/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:27:35.965660+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."
}