{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-80/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2004/80",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2004/80/EC of 29 April 2004 relating to compensation to crime victims",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2004-80",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Hearing of the applicant",
  "text": "1. If the deciding authority decides, in accordance with the law of its Member State, to hear the applicant or any other person such as a witness or an expert, it may contact the assisting authority for the purpose of arranging for:\n(a) the person(s) to be heard directly by the deciding authority, in accordance with the law of its Member State, through the use in particular of telephone- or video-conferencing; or\n(b) the person(s) to be heard by the assisting authority, in accordance with the law of its Member State, which will subsequently transmit a report of the hearing to the deciding authority.\n2. The direct hearing in accordance with paragraph 1(a) may only take place in cooperation with the assisting authority and on a voluntary basis without the possibility of coercive measures being imposed by the deciding authority.",
  "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/2004/80/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:46.984637+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."
}