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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-28/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-28/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2014/28",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2014/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market and supervision of explosives for civil uses (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2014-28",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Licence or authorisation",
  "text": "Economic operators shall be in possession of a licence or authorisation which entitles them to engage in the manufacture, storage, use, import, export, transfer or trade of explosives.\nThe first paragraph shall not apply to employees of an economic operator possessing a licence or authorisation.",
  "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/2014/28/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:48.285300+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."
}