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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-26/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2013/26",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 2013/26/EU of 8 February 2013 adapting certain directives in the field of food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, by reason of the accession of Croatia",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-26",
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  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Directive 2013/26/EU\nof 8 February 2013\nadapting certain directives in the field of food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, by reason of the accession of Croatia\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,\nHaving regard to the Act of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, and in particular Article 50 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nPursuant to Article 50 of the Act of Accession, where acts of the institutions adopted prior to accession require adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of Accession or its Annexes, the Commission, if the original act was adopted by the Commission, shall, to this end, adopt the necessary acts.\n(2)\nThe Final Act of the Conference which drew up the Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting Parties had reached political agreement on a set of adaptations to acts adopted by the institutions required by reason of accession and invited the Council and the Commission to adopt these adaptations before accession, completed and updated where necessary to take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.\n(3)\nCommission Directives 1999/21/EC and 2006/141/EC should therefore be amended accordingly,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 91, 7.4.1999, p. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 401, 30.12.2006, p. 1."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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