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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-23/article-27",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2004/23",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2004/23/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on setting standards of quality and safety for the donation, procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of human tissues and cells",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-23",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Penalties",
  "text": "Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties provided for must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall notify those provisions to the Commission by 7 April 2006 and shall notify it without delay of any subsequent amendments affecting them.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2004/23/article/27",
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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."
}