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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1980-181/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1980-181/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1980/181",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 20 December 1979 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to units of measurement and on the repeal of Directive 71/354/EEC (80/181/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1980-181",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The use of units of measurement which are not or are no longer legal shall be authorized for:\nproducts and equipment already on the market and/or in service on the date on which this Directive is adopted,\ncomponents and parts of products and of equipment necessary to supplement or replace components or parts of the above products and equipment.\nHowever, the use of legal units of measurement may be required for the indicators of measuring instruments.",
  "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/eudr/1980/181/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:40.868248+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."
}