{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-838/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Submission of licence applications and issue of licences",
  "text": "1. Operators shall submit their import licence applications to the competent authorities of the Member State in which they are registered.\n2. Import licences, hereinafter referred to as ‘ accession licences ’ , shall be issued only for the release for free circulation in a new Member State.\n3. Licence applications shall bear the words: ‘ accession licence ’ , ‘ traditional operator ’ or ‘ non-traditional operator ’ , as the case may be, and ‘ Regulation (EC) No 838/2004. Licence only valid in a new Member State ’ .\nThese entries shall be entered in Box 20 of the licence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1260/2004 of 8 July 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 838/2004 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/838/article/8",
    "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."
}