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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-35/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2009/35",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2009/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the colouring matters which may be added to medicinal products (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-35",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where a colouring matter is deleted from Annex I to Directive 94/36/EC but the marketing of foodstuffs containing this colouring matter is permitted to continue for a limited period, this provision shall also apply to medicinal products.\nThis limited period of use may however be amended by the Commission as regards medicinal products.\nThose measures designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, by supplementing it shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 5(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/35/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:13.690732+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."
}