{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396/article-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396/article-3A.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2005/396",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2005-396",
  "path": "article/3A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Definitions: “competent authority” and “constituent territory”",
  "text": "(1.) In this Regulation, a reference to a competent authority or a constituent territory is to be interpreted in accordance with the provisions of this Article.\n(2.) The Secretary of State is the competent authority for the constituent territory of England.\n(3.) The Welsh Ministers are the competent authority for the constituent territory of Wales.\n(4.) The Scottish Ministers are the competent authority for the constituent territory of Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3A inserted (31.12.2020) by The Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/557), regs. 1(1), 3(5) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 6(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2005/396/article/3A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:54:46.831019+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."
}