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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-amendment-scotland-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2000/250",
  "legislation_title": "The Vegetable Seeds (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vegetable-seeds-amendment-scotland-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Vegetable Seeds Regulations 1993, S.I. 1993/2008 (“the principal Regulations”), as amended by S.I. 1996/1452, 1997/616 and 1999/1863.\nThe amendments to the principal Regulations give effect to Council Directive 98/95/EC (O.J. No. L 25, 1.2.99, p.1) in respect of the consolidation of the internal market, genetically modified plant resources and plant genetic resources. The directives in respect of the marketing of seeds amended by Council Directive 98/95/EC include Council Directive 70/458/EEC (O.J. No. L 225, 12.10.70, p.7) on the marketing of vegetable seed.\nThese amending Regulations–\n(a) amend definitions in the 1993 Regulations, including the definitions of “marketing” and “official examination” (regulation 4);\n(b) include provisions in relation to marketing and marketing authorisations, tests and trials, seed as grown, selection work and other scientific purposes, and make consequential amendments to regulation 4 (regulations 5 and 6);\n(c) include provision in relation to the marketing of genetically modified vegetable seeds (regulation 6);\n(d) make provision in relation to clear indications for genetically modified varieties (regulation 7); and\n(e) make provision for the supply of information about imported seeds (regulation 8).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/250/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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