{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-856/annex/division-1/division-5a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-856/annex/division-1/division-5a.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/856",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 856/2008 of 24 July 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1683/95 laying down a uniform format for visas as regards the numbering of visas",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-856",
  "path": "annex/division/1/division/5a",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "5a",
  "heading": "This box shall contain the three-letter country code as set out in ICAO Document 9303 on machine-readable travel documents, indicating the issuing Member State.",
  "text": "The ‘number of the visa sticker’ is the three-letter country code as set out in box 5a and the national number as referred to in box 5.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Exception for Germany: ICAO document 9303 on machine-readable travel documents provides for Germany the country code ‘D’."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/856/annex/division/1/division/5a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:03.488865+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."
}