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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-1257/article-15",
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  "legislation": "eur/1996/1257",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/96 of 20 June 1996 concerning humanitarian aid",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-1257",
  "path": "article/15",
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  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. Acting in accordance with the regulatory procedure referred to in Article 17(3), the Commission shall:\ndecide on Community financing for the humanitarian-aid protection operations referred to in Article 2(c),\ndecide to take direct Commission action or finance action by Member States’ specialised agencies,\n3. Acting in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 17(2), the Commission shall:\napprove global plans intended to provide for actions in a given country or region where the scale and complexity of the humanitarian crisis is such that it seems likely to continue, and the budgets for those plans. In this context, the Commission and the Member States shall examine the priorities to be established in the implementation of these global plans,\ndecide on projects in excess of ECU 2 million, without prejudice to Article 13.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Two."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Deleted by Regulation (EU) 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 adapting a number of legal acts providing for the use of the regulatory procedure with scrutiny to Articles 290 and 291 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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