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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-6/article-8",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1998/6",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 98/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 on consumer protection in the indication of the prices of products offered to consumers",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-6",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States shall lay down penalties for infringements of national provisions adopted in application of this Directive, and shall take all necessary measures to ensure that these are enforced. These penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "replacement",
      "affecting": "eudr/2019/2161",
      "affecting_title": "Directive (EU) 2019/2161 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2019 amending Council Directive 93/13/EEC and Directives 98/6/EC, 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the better enforcement and modernisation of Union consumer protection rules (Text with EEA relevance)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/6/article/8",
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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."
}