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  "title": "The Seeds (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997",
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  "long_title": "These Regulations implement—Commission Decision 97/125/EC (OJ No. L48, 19.2.97, p35) authorising the indelible printing of prescribed information on packages of seed of oil and fibre plants and amending Decision 87/309/EEC authorising the indelible printing of prescribed information on packages of certain fodder plant species; andCouncil Directive 96/72/EC (OJ No. L304, 27.11.96, p.10) amending Directives 66/400/EEC, 66/401/EEC, 66/402/EEC, 66/403/EEC, 69/208/EEC and 70/458/EEC on the marketing of beet seed, fodder plant seed, cereal seed, seed potatoes, seed of oil and fibre plants and vegetable seed, save insofar as it amends Directive 66/403/EEC (seed potatoes) in relation to which it is to be implemented separately.",
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