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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1974-556/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1974/556",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 4 June 1974 laying down detailed provisions concerning transitional measures relating to activities, trade in and distribution of toxic products and activities entailing the professional use of such products including activities of intermediaries (74/556/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1974-556",
  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where, in the Member State of origin or the Member State whence the person concerned comes, the formal qualifications laid down in Articles 2 and 3 or the attestations laid down in Article 4 (2) authorize only the taking up of activities relating to the distribution of toxic products or of activities entailing the professional use of such products, or exclude certain toxic products from these latter activities, the host Member State may apply the same limitations in its territory and also exclude from activities entailing the professional use of toxic products consisting of the same active material as products excluded by formal qualifications and attestations or involving similar risks for human, animal and plant health either directly or indirectly through the environment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1974/556/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:48.232912+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."
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