{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1295/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1295/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/1295",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1295/2008 of 18 December 2008 on the importation of hops from third countries (Codified version)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1295",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "On completion of customs formalities required for release for free circulation in Great Britain of the product to which the attestation of equivalence , the EU certificate or the extract relates, the original and the two copies shall be submitted to the customs authorities who shall countersign them, retaining the original. One copy shall be forwarded by the customs authorities to the competent authority, as referred to in Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 1850/2006, of the constituent nation where the product enters into free circulation. The second copy shall be returned to the importer, who must keep it for at least three years.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I 2019/822, reg. 10(6)(a) (as substituted by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1453), regs. 1(2)(b), 10(27))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(6)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(6)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1295/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:45.833381+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."
}