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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-736/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-736/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/736",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 736/2008 of 22 July 2008 on the application of Articles 87 and 88 of the Treaty to State aid to small and medium-sized enterprises active in the production, processing and marketing of fisheries products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-736",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation shall apply to transparent aid granted to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) active in the production, processing or marketing of fisheries products.\n2. This Regulation shall not apply to:\n(a) aid the amount of which is fixed on the basis of price or quantity of products put on the market;\n(b) aid to export-related activities, namely aid directly linked to the quantities exported, to the establishment and operation of a distribution network or to other current expenditure linked to the export activity;\n(c) aid contingent upon the use of domestic over imported goods;\n(d) aid granted to undertakings in difficulty;\n(e) aid schemes which do not explicitly exclude the payment of individual aid in favour of an undertaking which is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the common market;\n(f) ad-hoc aid in favour of an undertaking which is subject to an outstanding recovery order following a previous Commission decision declaring an aid illegal and incompatible with the common market.\n3. This Regulation shall not apply to aid for individual projects with eligible expenses in excess of EUR 2 million, or where the amount of aid exceeds EUR 1 million per beneficiary per year.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/736/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:08.021868+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."
}