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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-2271/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-2271/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1996/2271",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/96 of 22 November 1996 protecting against the effects of the extra-territorial application of legislation adopted by a third country, and actions based thereon or resulting therefrom",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1996-2271",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "This Regulation provides protection against and counteracts the effects of the extra-territorial application of the laws specified in the Annex of this Regulation, including regulations and other legislative instruments, and of actions based thereon or resulting therefrom, where such application affects the interests of persons, referred to in Article 11, engaging in international trade and/or the movement of capital and related commercial activities between the United Kingdom and other countries.\nThe Secretary of State may by regulations made by statutory instrument amend the Annex to this Regulation to add laws, regulations or other legislative instruments of other countries having extraterritorial application and causing adverse effects ..., and to delete laws, regulations or other legislative instruments when they no longer have such effects.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1 substituted (1.1.2021) by The Protecting against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1660), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 1 substituted (1.1.2021) by The Protecting against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1660), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) No 37/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2014 amending certain regulations relating to the common commercial policy as regards the procedures for the adoption of certain measures."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1 substituted (1.1.2021) by The Protecting against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1660), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Art. 1 substituted (1.1.2021) by The Protecting against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1660), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 1 omitted (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Protecting against the Effects of the Extraterritorial Application of Third Country Legislation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1660), regs. 1, 3(2)(b)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1996/2271/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:58:59.678758+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."
}