{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2368/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2368/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2002/2368",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 of 20 December 2002 implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme for the international trade in rough diamonds",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2002-2368",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Articles 4, 11, 12, and 14 shall not apply to rough diamonds which enter the United Kingdom ... solely for the purposes of transit to a participant outside the United Kingdom, on condition that neither the original container in which rough diamonds are being transported nor the original accompanying certificate issued by a competent authority of a participant has been tampered with at entry into or exit from the United Kingdom ..., and the transit purpose is clearly attested by the accompanying certificate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) No 257/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 2368/2002 as regards the inclusion of Greenland in implementing the Kimberley Process certification scheme."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 3(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 18 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 21(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 18 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/844), regs. 1, 21(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2002/2368/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:56:13.860791+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."
}