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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-385/annex/division-1/division-3",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2010/385",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision of 24 June 2010 on the conclusion of the Statute of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) by the European Union (2010/385/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2010-385",
  "path": "annex/division/1/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "In accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, the Union and the Member States have competences in the field of renewable energy as follows:",
  "text": "the Union has exclusive competence where a provision of the IRENA statute or an act implementing that statute is necessary to enable the Union to exercise its internal competence or in so far as the provisions of a Union act establish common rules that may be affected or altered in scope by provisions of the IRENA Statute or an act adopted in implementation thereof,\ninsofar as common rules exist but are neither affected nor altered in scope, in particular in cases of Union provisions establishing only minimum standards, the Member States have competence, without prejudice to the competence of the Union, to act in this field,\nMember States remain solely competent for matters under the IRENA statute in respect of which the Union has not adopted common rules.\nThe list of Union acts below illustrates the extent to which the Union has exercised its internal competence in this field in accordance with the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The extent of Union competence ensuing from these acts must be assessed by reference to the precise provisions of each measure, and in particular the extent to which these provisions establish common rules, and, for the purpose of determining the existence of exclusive Union competence, the extent to which these common rules are affected or altered in scope by the provisions of the IRENA statute or an act adopted in implementation thereof.\nDirective 2001/77/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 September 2001 on the promotion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in the internal electricity market (OJ L 283, 27.10.2001, p. 33),\nDirective 2003/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 May 2003 on the promotion of the use of biofuels or other renewable fuels for transport (OJ L 123, 17.5.2003, p. 42),\nDirective 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC (OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 16).",
  "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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