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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-246/annex-I/article-3",
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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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-246",
  "path": "annex/I/article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "This Protocol shall apply exclusively:\n(a) to pollution damage caused:\n(i) in the territory, including the territorial sea, of a Contracting State, and\n(ii) in the exclusive economic zone of a Contracting State, established in accordance with international law, or, if a Contracting State has not established such a zone, in an area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea of that State determined by that State in accordance with international law and extending not more than 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of its territorial sea is measured;\n(b) to preventive measures, wherever taken, to prevent or minimise such damage.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/246/annex/I/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:18:14.588332+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."
}