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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1295/article-9",
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  "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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The appropriate authorities shall regularly carry out checks on a random basis to verify whether hops which are imported pursuant to Article 190(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 comply with the minimum marketing requirements set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1850/2006.\n2. ... The checks shall cover at least 5 % of the number of hop consignments expected to be imported from a third country into Great Britain during the year. For the purposes of this paragraph, the EU may be treated as a single country.\n3. If the competent authorities ... find that the samples examined do not satisfy the minimum marketing requirements referred to in paragraph 1, the corresponding consignments may not be marketed in Great Britain.\n4. If an appropriate authority discovers that the characteristics of a product do not conform to the details listed on the attestation of equivalence accompanying the product it shall notify the Secretary of State thereof.\nUpon receipt of a notification under this paragraph, the Secretary of State may make regulations withdrawing the agency having issued the attestation of equivalence for such products from the list in Annex I.\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(9)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(9)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(10)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/822, reg. 10(10)(b) (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(28))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(10)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(11)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by S.I 2019/822, reg. 10(11)(b) (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(29))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(12)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(12)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(12)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Art. 9(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 10(13); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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