{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011/schedule-2/paragraph-30.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/463",
  "legislation_title": "The Seed Marketing Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seed-marketing-regulations-2011",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Minimum standards for purity and other species of seed in the sample",
  "text": "The sample taken under paragraph 28(2) for the purposes of Council Directive 66/401/EEC must have the minimum standards set out in the following table.\nColumn header\nMinimum analytical purity (% by weight)\nTotal weight of all other species (% by weight\nTotal weight of a single other species (% by weight\nSeed of Rumex spp excluding R acetosella and R maritimus\nSeed of couch\nSeed of blackgrass\nLimits of other specific species\nFine grasses\nfestulolium\n98\n1.5\n0\n0\n10\n0\nred fescue\n95\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\nThe sample must have no more than four seeds ryegrass, cocksfoot, meadow fescue and 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass\nsmooth-stalked meadowgrass\n90\n1.5\n0.5\n2\n3\n3\nMaximum of 0.4% by weight of seed of other meadow\ngrass\nFodder grasses\ncocksfoot\n90\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\nmeadow fescue, tall fescue\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\n0.3% rough stalked meadow grass, 0.3% ryegrass\nhybrid ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, perennial ryegrass\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\n0.4% annual meadowgrass, 0.3% rough stalked meadow grass\nsmall timothy, timothy\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n4\n10\n10\n0.3% Agrostis spp\nSmall seeded legumes\nlucerne, red clover, white clover\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n10\n10\n10\n0.3% Melitotus spp\nsainfoin\n98\n1.5\n0.5\n5\n10\n10\n0.3% Melitotus spp",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/463/schedule/2/paragraph/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:01.369601+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."
}