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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-870/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/870",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC)No 870/2004 of 26 April 2004 establishing a Community programme on the conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1467/94 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-870",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Eligible actions",
  "text": "1. The Community programme referred to in Article 1 shall comprise targeted actions, concerted actions and accompanying actions, as specified in Articles 5, 6 and 7.\n2. All actions carried out under the programme shall be in conformity with Community legislation on the phytostanitary, and animal health and zootechnical rules, on the marketing of seed and propagating material and on the common catalogue and shall take into account:\n(a) other activities undertaken at Community level;\n(b) relevant international processes, developments and agreements, in particular as regards:\nthe Convention on Biological Diversity,\nthe International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture,\nthe FAO's Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and other actions undertaken within the framework of FAO,\nthe European Plant Conservation Strategy and the relevant resolutions of the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe,\nthe Global Strategy for the Management of Farm Animal Genetic Resources, and\nprogrammes implemented under international frameworks such as the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks (ECP/GR), the European regional focal point (ERFP) of national coordinators for the management of farm animal genetic resources, European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (Euforgen) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/870/article/4",
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  },
  "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."
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