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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-2501/article-28",
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  "legislation": "eur/2001/2501",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2501/2001 of 10 December 2001 applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences for the period from 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2001-2501",
  "path": "article/28",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where the Commission decides to initiate an investigation, it shall publish a notice in the Official Journal of the European Communities announcing the investigation, and notify the beneficiary country concerned thereof. The notice shall provide a summary of the information received and state that any useful information may be sent to the Commission. It shall specify the period within which interested parties may make their views known in writing.\n2. The Commission shall provide the beneficiary country concerned with every opportunity to cooperate in the investigation.\n3. The Commission shall seek all information it considers necessary and may verify the information received with economic operators and the beneficiary country concerned. The available assessments, comments, decisions, recommendations and conclusions of the various supervisory bodies of the ILO, including in particular Article 33 procedures, shall serve as the point of departure for the investigation as to whether temporary withdrawal is justified for the reason referred to in Article 26(1)(b).\n4. The Commission may be assisted by officials of the Member State on whose territory verification might be sought, if that Member State so requests.\n5. Where information requested by the Commission is not provided within a reasonable period or the investigation is significantly impeded, findings may be made on the basis of the facts available.\n6. The investigation should be completed within a year. The Commission may extend this period, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 39.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2001/2501/article/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:41.304749+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."
}