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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-445/article-7",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/445",
  "legislation_title": "Decision No 445/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 establishing a Union action for the European Capitals of Culture for the years 2020 to 2033 and repealing Decision No 1622/2006/EC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-445",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Submission of applications in the Member States",
  "text": "1. Each Member State shall be responsible for the organisation of the competition between its cities in accordance with the calendar.\n2. The Member States concerned shall publish a call for submission of applications at least six years before the year of the title.\nBy way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the Member States entitled to designate a city to hold the title in 2020 shall publish such a call as soon as possible after 4 May 2014.\nEach call for submission of applications shall contain the application form referred to in Article 4(1).\nThe deadline for submitting applications by candidate cities under each call for submission of applications shall be scheduled at the earliest 10 months after its publication.\n3. The Member States concerned shall notify the applications to the Commission.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/445/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:43.130972+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}