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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-658/article-16",
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  "legislation": "eur/2007/658",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 658/2007 of 14 June 2007 concerning financial penalties for infringement of certain obligations in connection with marketing authorisations granted under Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-658",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Forms of financial penalty and maximum amounts",
  "text": "1. Where, following the procedure provided for in Subsection 1, the Commission finds that the marketing authorisation holder has committed, intentionally or negligently, an infringement as referred to in Article 1, it may adopt a decision imposing a fine not exceeding 5 % of the holder’s Community turnover in the preceding business year.\n2. Where the marketing authorisation holder has not terminated the infringement, the Commission may, in the decision referred to in paragraph 1, impose periodic penalty payments per day not exceeding 2,5 % of the holder’s average daily Community turnover in the preceding business year.\nPeriodic penalty payments may be imposed for a period running from the date of notification of that decision until the infringement has been brought to an end.\n3. For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2, the preceding business year refers to the business year preceding the date of the decision referred to in paragraph 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/658/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:54.256207+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."
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