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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-637/article-17",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2015/637",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive (EU) 2015/637 of 20 April 2015 on the coordination and cooperation measures to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries and repealing Decision 95/553/EC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-637",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Transposition",
  "text": "1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 May 2018.\nWhen Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.\n2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.",
  "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/2015/637/article/17",
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  },
  "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."
}