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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-141/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2000/141",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 1999 on orphan medicinal products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2000-141",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Purpose",
  "text": "The purpose of this Regulation is to lay down a Community procedure for the designation of medicinal products as orphan medicinal products and to provide incentives for the research, development and placing on the market of designated orphan medicinal products.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulation revoked in part (31.12.2020) by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 9 para. 1(f) (subject to transitional provisions in S.I. 2012/1916, Sch. 33A); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2000/141/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:57:33.227512+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."
}