{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-589/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-589/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/589",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 of 23 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-589",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Producer code",
  "text": "1. The producer code must be easily visible and clearly legible and be at least 2 mm high.\n2. Without prejudice to point 3(1) of part 6 of Annex 7 to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, where it is not possible for technical reasons to mark cracked or soiled eggs, marking with the producer code shall not be compulsory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 9(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 4(9)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 4(9)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/589/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:12.886367+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."
}