{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2356/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/2356",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (EU) 2015/2356 of 10 December 2015 authorising certain Member States to accept, in the interest of the European Union, the accession of Albania to the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2356",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The Member States that have not yet done so are hereby authorised to accept the accession of Albania to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (‘the 1980 Hague Convention’) in the interest of the Union.\n2. Member States referred to in paragraph 1 shall, no later than 11 December 2016, deposit a declaration of acceptance of the accession of Albania to the 1980 Hague Convention in the interest of the Union worded as follows:\n‘[Full name of MEMBER STATE] declares that it accepts the accession of Albania to the Hague Convention of 25 October 1980 on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, in accordance with Council Decision (EU) 2015/2356’\n3. Each Member State shall inform the Council and the Commission of the deposit of its declaration of acceptance of the accession of Albania and communicate to the Commission the text of the declaration within two months of its deposit.",
  "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/2015/2356/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:07.957909+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."
}