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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electromagnetic-compatibility-regulations-2016/schedule-5/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1091",
  "legislation_title": "The Electromagnetic Compatibility Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electromagnetic-compatibility-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment activities must have—\n(a) sound technical and vocational training covering all the conformity assessment activities in relation to which the conformity assessment body has been approved;\n(b) satisfactory knowledge of the requirements of the assessments that they carry out and adequate authority to carry out those assessments;\n(c) appropriate knowledge and understanding of the essential requirements, of the applicable designated standards and ... of these Regulations;\n(d) the ability to draw up certificates, records and reports demonstrating that assessments have been carried out.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 12 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 20 para. 39(a) (with Sch. 20 para. 33) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 5 para. 12(c) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 20 para. 39(c)(i) (with Sch. 20 para. 33) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 5 para. 12(c) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 20 para. 39(c)(ii) (with Sch. 20 para. 33) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England, Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/40",
      "affecting_title": "The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India) Regulations 2026"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2026/40",
      "affecting_title": "The Treatment of Conformity Assessment Bodies (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the Republic of India) Regulations 2026"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1091/schedule/5/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:15.552947+00:00"
  },
  "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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