{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1987-4006/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/1987/4006",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4006/97 of 23 December 1987 amending Protocol No 4 on cotton",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1987-4006",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Regulation (EEC) No 4006/97\nof 23 December 1987\namending Protocol No 4 on cotton\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff, as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3985/87, and in particular Article 15 thereof,\nWhereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 establishes, with effect from 1 January 1988, a combined goods nomenclature based on the Harmonized System which will meet the requirements both of the Common Customs Tariff and the nomenclature of goods for the external trade statistics of the Community;\nWhereas, as a consequence, it is necessary to express the descriptions of goods and tariff heading numbers which appear in Council Protocol No 4 of 24 May 1979 concerning cotton, according to the terms of the combined nomenclature; whereas these adaptations do not call for any amendment of substance,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 256, 7. 9. 1987, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 376, 31. 12. 1987, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No L 291, 19. 11. 1979, p. 174."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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