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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-287/article-12",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/287",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 10 March 2014 setting out criteria for establishing and evaluating European Reference Networks and their Members and for facilitating the exchange of information and expertise on establishing and evaluating such Networks (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/287/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-287",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Loss of membership",
  "text": "1. A Member of a Network may lose membership for any of the following reasons:\n(a) voluntary withdrawal, according to the rules and procedures agreed by the Board of the Network;\n(b) by decision of the Board of the Network, according to the rules and procedures agreed by the Board;\n(c) if a Member State of establishment notifies to the Member of the Network that its participation in the Network no longer complies with national legislation;\n(d) if the Member refuses to be evaluated pursuant to Article 14;\n(e) if a negative evaluation report on the Member has been drawn up pursuant to Article 14;\n(f) if the Network where the Member participates is terminated.\n2. The relevant Member State shall inform the Commission of the reasons for the notification referred to in paragraph 1(c).\n3. The Board of the Network shall inform the Commission in the cases referred to in point 1(a), (b) and (d).\n4. The loss of membership on the grounds listed in paragraph 1(e) must be approved by the Board of Member States referred to in Article 6.\n5. In any case of loss of membership, the Commission shall verify whether the minimum numbers of healthcare providers and of Member States set out in Article 2(2) are still reached. If not, it shall ask the Network to find new Members within the next two years or terminate the Network, inform the Board of Member States of the situation and ask Member States to encourage their healthcare providers to join the Network.\n6. Loss of membership shall lead to the automatic loss of any of the rights and responsibilities associated with participation in the Network, including the right to use the logo.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/287/article/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."
}