{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-4/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-4/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1994/4",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 94/4/EC of 14 February 1994 amending Directives 69/169/EEC and 77/388/EEC and increasing the level of allowances for travellers from third countries and the limits on tax-free purchases in intra-Community travel",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-4",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Directive 69/169/EEC is hereby amended as follows:\n1.. in Article 1 (1), ‘ECU 45’ shall be replaced by ‘ECU 175’;\n2.. in Article 1 (2), ‘ECU 23’ shall be replaced by ‘ECU 90’;\n3.. Article 7b shall be replaced by the following:\n‘Article 7b 1. By way of derogation from Article 1 (1), Spain is hereby authorized to apply, until 31 December 2000, an allowance of ECU 600 for imports of the goods in question by travellers coming from the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla who enter the territory of Spain as definied in Article 3 (2) and (3) of Directive 77/388/EEC.\n2. By way of derogation from Article 1 (2), Spain shall have the option of reducing that allowance to ECU 150 for travellers under 15 years of age.’",
  "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/1994/4/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:16.389472+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."
}