{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1093",
  "legislation_title": "The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations, which amend the Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1985, implement article 5 of Commission Directive 87/120/EEC (OJ No. 449, 18.2.87, p.43) in so far as it amends Annex III of Council Directive 70/458/EEC (OJ No. L225, 12.10.70, p.7) (as amended) on the marketing of vegetable seeds by providing that the maximum weight of a seed lot set out in that Annex for which a sample is to be drawn for certification shall not be exceeded by more than 5% (regulation 2(d)(ii)).\nThe other changes of substance made by these Regulations to the 1985 Regulations are–\n(1) the deletion of the minimum size of a supplier label for small packages of Certified or Standard Seed (regulation 2(b)); and\n(2) the inclusion of a requirement that a sample of seeds taken from a seed stream during processing for the purposes of an official examination shall be taken by an automatic sampling device approved by the Minister (regulation 2(d)(i)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1093/note",
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  "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."
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