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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-117/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1989/117",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 13 February 1989 on the obligations of branches established in a Member State of credit institutions and financial institutions having their head offices outside that Member State regarding the publication of annual accounting documents (89/117/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-117",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. The coordination measures prescribed by this Directive shall apply to branches established in a Member State by credit institutions and financial institutions within the meaning of Article 2 (1) (a) and (b) of Directive 86/635/EEC having their head offices outside that Member State. Where a credit institution or financial institution has its head office in a non-member country, this Directive shall apply in so far as the credit institution or financial institution has a legal form which is comparable to the legal forms specified in the above-mentioned Article 2 (1) (a) and (b).\n2. The third indent of Article 1 of Directive 77/780/EEC shall apply mutatis mutandis to branches of credit institutions and financial institutions covered by this Directive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 322, 17. 12. 1977, p. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1989/117/article/1",
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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."
}