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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2017-1371/article-8",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2017/1371",
  "legislation_title": "Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2017 on the fight against fraud to the Union's financial interests by means of criminal law",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2017-1371",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Aggravating circumstance",
  "text": "Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that where a criminal offence referred to in Article 3, 4 or 5 is committed within a criminal organisation in the sense of Framework Decision 2008/841/JHA, this shall be considered to be an aggravating circumstance.",
  "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/2017/1371/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:21:32.134691+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."
}