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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-42/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-42/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1993/42",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1993-42",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Placing on the market and putting into service",
  "text": "Member States shall take all necessary steps to ensure that devices may be placed on the market and/or put into service only if they comply with the requirements laid down in this Directive when duly supplied and properly installed, maintained and used in accordance with their intended purpose.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 98/79/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 1998 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1993/42/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:18.816106+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."
}