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  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 of 20 November 2006 adapting certain Regulations and Decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement of persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture (including veterinary and phytosanitary legislation), transport policy, taxation, statistics, energy, environment, cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs, customs union, external relations, common foreign and security policy and institutions, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania",
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  "text": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006\nof 20 November 2006\nadapting certain Regulations and Decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement of persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture (including veterinary and phytosanitary legislation), transport policy, taxation, statistics, energy, environment, cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs, customs union, external relations, common foreign and security policy and institutions, by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania, and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,\nHaving regard to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania, and in particular Article 56 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nPursuant to Article 56 of the Act of Accession, where acts of the institutions remain valid beyond 1 January 2007, and require adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of Accession or its Annexes, the necessary acts are to be adopted by the Council, unless the original act was adopted by the Commission.\n(2)\nThe Final Act of the Conference which drew up the Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting Parties had reached political agreement on a set of adaptations to acts adopted by the institutions required by reason of accession and invited the Council and the Commission to adopt these adaptations before accession, completed and updated where necessary to take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.\n(3)\nThe following Regulations should therefore be amended accordingly:\nin the field of the free movement of goods: Regulations (EC) No 2003/2003 and (EC) No 339/93,\nin the field of the freedom of movement of persons: Regulations (EEC) No 1408/71 and (EEC) No 574/72,\nin the field of company law: Regulation (EC) No 2157/2001,\nin the field of competition policy: Regulation (EC) No 659/1999,\nin the field of agriculture (including veterinary legislation): Regulations: No 79/65, (EEC) No 1784/77, (EEC) No 2092/91, (EEC) No 2137/92, (EC) No 1493/1999, (EC) No 1760/2000, (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 2160/2003, (EC) No 21/2004, (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 854/2004, (EC) No 882/2004 and (EC) No 510/06,\nin the field of transport policy: Regulations (EEC) No 1108/70, (EEC) No 3821/85, (EEC) No 881/92, (EEC) No 684/92, (EEC) No 1192/69 and (EEC) No 2408/92,\nin the field of taxation: Regulation (EC) No 1798/2003,\nin the field of statistics: Regulations (EEC) No 2782/75, (EEC) No 357/79, (EEC) No 837/90, (EEC) No 959/93, (EC) No 1172/98, (EC) No 437/2003 and (EC) No 1177/2003,\nin the field of energy: Regulation (EC) No 1407/2002,\nin the field of environment: Regulations (EC) No 761/2001 and (EC) No 2037/2000,\nin the field of cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs: Regulations (EC) No 1346/2000, (EC) No 44/2001, (EC) No 1683/95 and (EC) No 539/2001,\nin the field of customs union: Regulation (EEC) No 2913/92,\nin the field of external relations: Regulations (EEC) No 3030/93, (EC) No 517/94, (EC) No 152/2002, (EC) No 2368/2002 and (EC) No 1236/2005,\nin the field of common foreign and security policy: Regulations (EC) No 2488/2000, (EC) No 2580/2001, (EC) No 881/2002, (EC) No 1210/2003, (EC) No 131/2004, (EC) No 234/2004, (EC) No 314/2004, (EC) No 872/2004, (EC) No 1763/2004, (EC) No 174/2005, (EC) No 560/2005, (EC) No 889/2005, (EC) No 1183/2005, (EC) No 1184/2005, (EC) No 1859/2005, (EC) No 305/2006, (EC) No 765/2006 and(EC) No 817/2006,\nin the field of institutions: Regulation (EEC) 1/58.\n(4)\nand the following Decisions should therefore be amended accordingly:\nin the field of the freedom of movement of persons: Decisions of the Administrative Commission of the European Communities on Social Security for Migrant Workers No 117 of 7 July 1982, No 136 of 1 July 1987, No 150 of 26 June 1992 and No 192 of 29 October 2003,\nin the field of agriculture (veterinary and phytosanitary legislation): Decisions 79/542/EEC, 82/735/EEC, 90/424/EEC, 2003/17/EC and 2005/834/EC,\nin the field of transport policy: Decision No 1692/96/EC,\nin the field of energy: Decision 77/270/Euratom and the Statutes of the Euratom Supply Agency,\nin the field of environment: Decisions 97/602/EC and 2002/813/EC,\nin the field of cooperation in the fields of justice and home affairs: Decision of the Executive Committee of 28 April 1999 on the definitive version of the Common Consular Instructions and Decision of the Executive Committee of 22 December 1994 on the certificate provided for in Article 75 to carry narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances.\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
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