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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-marketing-standards-amendment-regulations-1996/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1725",
  "legislation_title": "The Eggs (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eggs-marketing-standards-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Eggs (Marketing Standards) Regulations 1995 and apply to Great Britain.\nThe Regulations make provision for the enforcement and execution of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2401/95 amending Regulation (EEC) No. 1274/91 introducing detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1907/90 on certain marketing standards for eggs (regulation 5). Regulation (EC) No. 2401/95 is concerned with the optional use of the indication “eggs from caged hens”.\nThe Regulations insert a definition of “sale” for the purpose of identifying enforcement authorities (regulation 3).\nThe Regulations also prescribe the official mark for the purposes of Article 21(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 1274/91, which concerns the information to be provided on bands or labels on large packs of eggs (regulation 4).\nA compliance cost assessment of the effect that this instrument would have on the cost of business is available from:\nMilk, Pigs, Eggs and Poultry Division\nMinistry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food\nRoom 511\nWhitehall Place (East Block)\nLondon SW1A 2HH.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1725/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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