{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-502/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-502/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/502",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 11 May 2006 requiring Member States to take measures to ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market and to prohibit the placing on the market of novelty lighters (notified under documents number C(2006) 1887 and number C(2006) 1887 COR) (Text with EEA relevance) (This text annuls and replaces the text published in Official Journal L 197 of 19 July 2006, p. 9) (2006/502/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-502",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market as of 10 months from the date of notification of this Decision.\n2. As of the same date referred to in paragraph 1 above, Member States shall prohibit the placing on the market of novelty lighters.\n3. Member States shall ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are supplied to consumers as of 11 March 2008 .\n4. Member States shall prohibit the supply of novelty lighters to consumers as of 11 March 2008 .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Decision of 12 April 2007 amending Decision 2006/502/EC requiring Member States to take measures to ensure that only lighters which are child-resistant are placed on the market and to prohibit the placing on the market of novelty lighters (notified under document number C(2007) 1567) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/231/EC)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/502/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:32.632801+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."
}