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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-70/annex-IV/division-C/division-9",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1998/70",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 98/70/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Council Directive 93/12/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-70",
  "path": "annex/IV/division/C/division/9",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The categories mentioned in point 8(b) are defined as follows:\n(a) ‘ severely degraded land ’ means land that, for a significant period of time, has either been significantly salinated or presented significantly low organic matter content and been severely eroded;\n(b) ‘ heavily contaminated land ’ means land that is unfit for the cultivation of food and feed due to soil contamination.\nSuch land shall include land that has been the subject of a Commission decision in accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 7c(3).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2009/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 amending Directive 98/70/EC as regards the specification of petrol, diesel and gas-oil and introducing a mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and amending Council Directive 1999/32/EC as regards the specification of fuel used by inland waterway vessels and repealing Directive 93/12/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
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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."
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