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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-579/annex-I/article-10",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2004/579",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 29 April 2004 on the conclusion, on behalf of the European Community, of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime (2004/579/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2004-579",
  "path": "annex/I/article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Liability of legal persons",
  "text": "1. Each State Party shall adopt such measures as may be necessary, consistent with its legal principles, to establish the liability of legal persons for participation in serious crimes involving an organised criminal group and for the offences established in accordance with Articles 5, 6, 8 and 23 of this Convention.\n2. Subject to the legal principles of the State Party, the liability of legal persons may be criminal, civil or administrative.\n3. Such liability shall be without prejudice to the criminal liability of the natural persons who have committed the offences.\n4. Each State Party shall, in particular, ensure that legal persons held liable in accordance with this Article are subject to effective, proportionate and dissuasive criminal or non-criminal sanctions, including monetary sanctions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2004/579/annex/I/article/10",
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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."
}