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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-271/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1991/271",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment (91/271/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-271",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that, before 31 December 1993, the discharge of industrial waste water into collecting systems and urban waste water treatment plants is subject to prior regulations and/or specific authorizations by the competent authority or appropriate body.\n2. Regulations and/or specific authorisation shall satisfy the requirements of section C of Annex I. The Commission may amend those requirements. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 18(3).\n3. Regulations and specific authorization shall be reviewed and if necessary adapted at regular intervals.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1137/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part One."
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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."
}