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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-974/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2008/974",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision 2008/974/CFSP of 18 December 2008 in support of the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation in the framework of the implementation of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-974",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. For the purposes of ensuring the continuous and practical implementation of certain elements of the EU Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the EU shall support the activities of subscribing States to the Code in order to further the following objectives:\n(a) promoting the universality of the Code, and in particular the subscription to the Code by all States with ballistic missile capabilities;\n(b) supporting the implementation of the Code;\n(c) promoting further enhancement of the Code.\n2. In this context, the projects to be supported by the European Union shall cover the following specific activities:\n(a) providing means for the organisation of targeted outreach, for example in the form of a workshop, aiming at the promotion of new subscriptions to the Code for the region with the lowest level of subscription to the Code;\n(b) providing financial and technical means to facilitate, on the one hand, the exchange of information among subscribing States, and, on the other, a visit by international observers to Space Launch Vehicles (SLV) testing launching sites, which subscribing States have resolved to consider on a voluntary basis under Article 4a (ii) of the Code;\n(c) providing means to pursue a debate among subscribing States on how to preserve the relevance and the viability of the Code. The debate shall in particular take into account new developments in the area of ballistic missile proliferation and the developments in international institutional and legal frameworks related to ballistic missiles.\nThese projects shall be carried out for the benefit of subscribing and non-subscribing States to the Code.\nA detailed description of the projects is set out in the Annex.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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