{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2003/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2003/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2003/2003",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 relating to fertilisers (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2003-2003",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Safety measures and controls",
  "text": "1. The manufacturer shall ensure that straight ammonium nitrate fertilisers of high nitrogen content comply with the provisions of section 1 of Annex III.\n2. The checking, analysis and testing for official controls of straight ammonium nitrate fertilisers of high nitrogen content provided for by this chapter shall be carried out in accordance with the methods described in section 3 of Annex III.\n3. To ensure the traceability of ammonium nitrate UK fertilisers of high nitrogen content placed on the market, the manufacturer shall maintain records of the names and addresses of the sites, and of the operators of the sites, at which the fertiliser and its principal components were produced. These records shall be available for inspection by the enforcement authority for as long as the fertiliser is being supplied to the market, and for a further period of 2 years after the manufacturer stopped supplying it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 5(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 26(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fertilisers and Ammonium Nitrate Material (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/601), regs. 1(2), 5(11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2003/2003/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:51.297977+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."
}