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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-data-protection-periods-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1221",
  "legislation_title": "The Biocidal Products (Data Protection Periods) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-data-protection-periods-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend Article 95 of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 concerning the making available on the market and use of biocidal products (EUR 2012/528) (“the GB Biocidal Products Regulation”).\nRegulation 2 amends paragraphs 3 and 5 of Article 95 of the GB Biocidal Products Regulation to cross refer to Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1062/2014 (EUR 2014/1062).\nRegulation 2 also amends the date, under Article 95(5) of the GB Biocidal Products Regulation, on which data protection ends for those active substance/product-type combinations listed in Annex II of Regulation (EU) No 1062/2014 where no decision on approval has yet been reached. That date is extended by five years, from 31 December 2025 to 31 December 2030.\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1221/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:23.783605+00:00"
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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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