{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-9/article-11",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1996/9",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1996-9",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Beneficiaries of protection under the sui generis right",
  "text": "1. The right provided for in Article 7 shall apply to database whose makers or rightholders are nationals of a Member State or who have their habitual residence in the territory of the Community.\n2. Paragraph 1 shall also apply to companies and firms formed in accordance with the law of a Member State and having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the Community; however, where such a company or firm has only its registered office in the territory of the Community, its operations must be genuinely linked on an ongoing basis with the economy of a Member State.\n3. Agreements extending the right provided for in Article 7 to databases made in third countries and falling outside the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be concluded by the Council acting on a proposal from the Commission. The term of any protection extended to databases by virtue of that procedure shall not exceed that available pursuant to Article 10.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1996/9/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:13.340825+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."
}