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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-714/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/714",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 714/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2007 repealing Council Directive 68/89/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning the classification of wood in the rough",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-714",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Decision No 714/2007/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council\nof 20 June 2007\nrepealing Council Directive 68/89/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning the classification of wood in the rough\nTHE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 95 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nHaving regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee,\nActing in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommunity policies on better regulation stress the importance of the simplification of national and Community legislation as a crucial element in improving the competitiveness of undertakings and in achieving the objectives of the Lisbon Agenda.\n(2)\nThe methods of measurement and classification provided for by Directive 68/89/EEC differ from the methods of measurement and classification generally and currently applied in transactions between undertakings in the forestry sector and forest-based industries and have been found not to be suitable for market needs.\n(3)\nThe methods of measurement and classification provided for by Directive 68/89/EEC are no longer necessary for the purposes of the internal market.\n(4)\nDirective 68/89/EEC should therefore be repealed.\n(5)\nThe repeal of Directive 68/89/EEC entails that after 31 December 2008 the mark ‘EEC classified’ will no longer be available for use in marketing and that the corresponding national implementing measures have accordingly to be repealed by 31 December 2008,\nHAVE ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Opinion of 14 March 2007 (not yet published in the Official Journal)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Opinion of the European Parliament of 13 February 2007 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 21 May 2007."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 32, 6.2.1968, p. 12."
    }
  ],
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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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