{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-54/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-54/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2000/54",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2000/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 September 2000 on the protection of workers from risks related to exposure to biological agents at work (seventh individual directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2000-54",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Classification of biological agents",
  "text": "1. Community classification shall be on the basis of the definitions in the second paragraph of Article 2, points 2 to 4 (groups 2 to 4).\n2. Pending Community classification Member States shall classify biologial agents that are or may be a hazard to human health on the basis of the definition in the second paragraph of Article 2, points 2 to 4 (groups 2 to 4).\n3. If the biological agent tobe assessed cannot be classified clearly in one of the groups defined in the second paragraph of Article 2, it must be classified in the highest risk group among the alternatives.",
  "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/2000/54/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:02.086169+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."
}