{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62/article-19",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1994/62",
  "legislation_title": "European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1994-62",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Adaptation to scientific and technical progress",
  "text": "1. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts necessary for adapting the identification system referred to in Article 8(2) and Article 10, second paragraph, sixth indent, to scientific and technical progress. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 21(2).\n2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 21a to amend the illustrative examples for the definition of packaging listed in Annex I.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive (EU) 2018/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 amending Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1994/62/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:15.137486+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."
}