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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1960-11/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/1960/11",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation No 11 concerning the abolition of discrimination in transport rates and conditions, in implementation of Article 79 (3) of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1960-11",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Regulation No 11\nconcerning the abolition of discrimination in transport rates and conditions, in implementation of Article 79 (3) of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 79 thereof;\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission;\nHaving regard to the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee;\nWhereas Article 79 (3) requires the Council to lay down rules for the abolition, as regards transport within the Community, of the forms of discrimination referred to in Article 79 (1);\nWhereas such abolition requires the prohibition of the above-mentioned forms of discrimination, including the fixing by tariff or otherwise, of transport rates and conditions which, when applied, would constitute discrimination;\nWhereas it will only be possible to check what transport rates and conditions are being applied and to detect any discrimination if carriers and agents concerned with the carriage of goods are required to supply the necessary information, to make out a transport document enabling such information to be checked and to submit themselves to inspection;\nWhereas, for the purpose of ensuring compliance with these provisions, there should be instituted a system of penalties, such penalties to be subject to review by the Court of Justice exercising unlimited jurisdiction, as provided for in Article 172 of the Treaty;\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1960/11/introduction",
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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."
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