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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-412/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2012/412",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 19 July 2012 amending the list of ‘basic local government units’ in the Annex to Council Directive 94/80/EC laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections by citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals (2012/412/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-412",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision\nof 19 July 2012\namending the list of ‘basic local government units’ in the Annex to Council Directive 94/80/EC laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections by citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals\n(2012/412/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 22(1) thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 94/80/EC of 19 December 1994 laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections by citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals, and in particular Article 2(2) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 94/80/EC lists in its Annex the ‘basic local government units’ which determine the scope of the Directive.\n(2)\nAccording to Article 2(2) of Directive 94/80/EC, a Member State shall notify the Commission if any local government unit referred to in the Annex to that Directive is, by virtue of a change in its domestic law, replaced by another unit or if, by virtue of such a change, any such unit is abolished or further such units are created. Consequently, the Commission shall adapt that Annex by making appropriate substitutions, deletions or additions and that Annex so revised shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.\n(3)\nDenmark, Ireland, Greece, Latvia and Lithuania have informed the Commission that, following changes in their domestic legislation, the ‘basic local government units’ concerning them have been modified. These laws have been formally notified to the Commission.\n(4)\nThe Annex to Directive 94/80/EC should be amended accordingly,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 368, 31.12.1994, p. 38."
    }
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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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