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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-118/article-42",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2008/118",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2008/118/EC of 16 December 2008 concerning the general arrangements for excise duty and repealing Directive 92/12/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-118",
  "path": "article/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Member States which have concluded an Agreement on the responsibility for the construction or maintenance of a trans-border bridge may adopt measures derogating from the provisions of this Directive in order to simplify the procedure for collecting excise duty on the excise goods used for the construction and the maintenance of that bridge.\nFor the purposes of those measures, the bridge and the construction sites referred to in the Agreement shall be deemed to be part of the territory of the Member State which is responsible for the construction or maintenance of the bridge in accordance with the Agreement.\nThe Member States concerned shall notify those measures to the Commission, which shall inform the other Member States.",
  "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/2008/118/article/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:16.976358+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."
}