{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/838",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 of 28 April 2004 on transitional measures for imports of bananas into the Community by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation:\n(a) ‘Community of fifteen’ means the Community as constituted on 30 April 2004;\n(b) ‘New Member States’ means the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia;\n(c) ‘The enlarged Community’ means the Community as constituted on 1 May 2004;\n(d) ‘primary import’ means the economic operation defined in the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 with a view to sale in one or more new Member States;\n(e) ‘minimum quantity’ means the minimum quantity defined in the third subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EC) No 896/2001 established on the basis of all primary imports carried out with a view to supplying the markets of the new Member States;\n(f) ‘Competent authorities’ means the competent authorities listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 896/2001, as amended by this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/838/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:34.557902+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."
}