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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-489/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2005/489",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 6 July 2005 granting derogations to certain Member States concerning the first transmission of quarterly data pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1222/2004 (notified under document number C(2005) 1874) (Only the Czech, Danish, Greek, French, Polish, Portuguese and Slovenian texts are authentic) (2005/489/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2005-489",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 6 July 2005\ngranting derogations to certain Member States concerning the first transmission of quarterly data pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1222/2004\n(notified under document number C(2005) 1874)\n(Only the Czech, Danish, Greek, French, Polish, Portuguese and Slovenian texts are authentic)\n(2005/489/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1222/2004 of 28 June 2004 concerning the compilation and transmission of data on the quarterly government debt, and in particular Article 2(3) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nRegulation (EC) No 1222/2004 provides for the compilation and transmission of data on the quarterly government debt, using the same definition of government debt except for the reference period as is given in Council Regulation (EC) No 3605/93 of 22 November 1993 on the application of the Protocol on the excessive deficit procedure annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community.\n(2)\nArticle 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1222/2004 provides that the Commission may grant a derogation, not exceeding one year, concerning the first transmission of quarterly data, insofar as national statistical systems require major change.\n(3)\nSuch derogations have been requested by the respective authorities of Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, France, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia.\n(4)\nAccording to the information received by the Commission (Eurostat), the requests from the Member States concerned are due to the fact that they need to make important changes to their statistical systems, which cannot be implemented before 31 December 2004.\n(5)\nThe derogations requested should therefore be granted,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 233, 2.7.2004, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 332, 31.12.1993, p. 7. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 351/2002 (OJ L 55, 26.2.2002, p. 23)."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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