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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/177",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 177/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 February 2008 establishing a common framework for business registers for statistical purposes and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 2186/93",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-177",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Register characteristics",
  "text": "1. The units listed in the registers shall be characterised by an identity number and the descriptive details specified in the Annex.\n2. The measures concerning the updating of the list of characteristics and the definition of the characteristics and continuity rules, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 16(3).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/177/article/5",
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  },
  "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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