{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-national-lists-of-varieties-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-national-lists-of-varieties-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1273",
  "legislation_title": "The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Amendment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/seeds-national-lists-of-varieties-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Regulation 2 (interpretation)",
  "text": "In regulation 2(1)—\n(a) after the definition of “the Common Catalogue Directive”, insert—\n““conservation variety” means a landrace or plant variety of a species specified in paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 1 that is naturally adapted to the local and regional conditions and threatened by genetic erosion, and for these purposes—\n(a) “landrace” means a set of populations or clones of a plant species which are naturally adapted to the environmental conditions of their region; and\n(b) “genetic erosion” means loss of genetic diversity between and within populations or varieties of the same species over time or reduction of the genetic basis of a species due to human intervention or environmental change;”;\n(b) after the definition of “person affected”, insert—\n““region of origin” means the region identified by the National Authorities when a conservation variety is accepted on to a National List as being the region in which the variety has historically been grown and to which it is naturally developed;”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 30.6.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/1273",
      "affecting_title": "The Seeds (National Lists of Varieties) (Amendment) Regulations 2009"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1273/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:11:52.257837+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."
}