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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2208/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2002/2208",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 2208/2002 of 12 December 2002 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 814/2000 on information measures relating to the common agricultural policy",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2208",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Eligibility criteria for applicants",
  "text": "1. The organisations and associations referred to in Article 2(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 814/2000 must meet the following conditions:\n(a) be private; in the case of organisations or associations bringing together other organisations or associations, these latter must also be private; where an annual work programme is implemented in partnership, the partners must also be private;\n(b) be non-profit-making;\n(c) have been established in a Member State for at least two years.\n2. The parties referred to in Article 2(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 814/2000 must be legal persons legally constituted in a Member State for at least two years.\n3. Where the agreement referred to in Article 8 provides for the payment of an advance on the grant, the applicant shall provide a bank guarantee of an equivalent amount, in accordance with the specimen provided by the Commission.\nThis guarantee shall not be required where the applicant is a public body.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/2208/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:16.064153+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."
}