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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-mercury-amendment-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1255",
  "legislation_title": "The Control of Mercury (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/control-of-mercury-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend Regulation (EU) 2017/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2017 on mercury (EUR 2017/852) (“the Mercury Regulation”). These amendments extend to England and Wales and Scotland only.\nAnnex 2 to the Mercury Regulation is amended to align it with the following decisions of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Cm 9688)—\n(a) decision MC - 4/3, adopted at the 4th Conference of the Parties (CP 1079), and\n(b) decision MC - 5/4, adopted at the 5th Conference of the Parties (UNEP/MC/COP.5/Dec.4. A copy of the decision is available at: https://minamataconvention.org/en/documents/amendments-annexes-and-b-and-feasibility-mercury-free-alternatives-manufacturing).\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. A de minimis impact assessment is available from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside this instrument at www.legislation.gov.uk.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1255/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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