{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-535/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-535/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/535",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 535/2008 of 13 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 708/2007 concerning use of alien and locally absent species in aquaculture",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-535",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority shall establish and keep up to date an information system containing details of all requests for permits to introduce an alien species or to translocate a locally absent species. The appropriate authority shall fill in for each request for a permit an information sheet setting out the data indicated in the Annex to this Regulation and in accordance with the format set out therein.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Aquatic Animal Health and Alien Species in Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/451), regs. 1, 10(5)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 4(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aquatic Animal Health and Alien Species in Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/451), regs. 1, 10(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 4(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Aquatic Animal Health and Alien Species in Aquaculture (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/451), regs. 1, 10(5)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/535/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:14.429873+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."
}