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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-246/annex-I/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2004/246",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 2 March 2004 authorising the Member States to sign, ratify or accede to, in the interest of the European Community, the Protocol of 2003 to the International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992, and authorising Austria and Luxembourg, in the interest of the European Community, to accede to the underlying instruments (2004/246/EC)",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. An International Supplementary Fund for compensation for pollution damage, to be named ‘The International Oil Pollution Compensation Supplementary Fund, 2003’ (hereinafter ‘the Supplementary Fund’), is hereby established.\n2. The Supplementary Fund shall in each Contracting State be recognised as a legal person capable under the laws of that State of assuming rights and obligations and of being a party in legal proceedings before the courts of that State. Each Contracting State shall recognise the Director of the Supplementary Fund as the legal representative of the Supplementary Fund.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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