{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/469",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Conditions for obtaining a certificate",
  "text": "Where an application is submitted under Article 7, a certificate shall be granted if, at the date of submission of that application—\n(a)the product is protected by a basic patent in force;\n(b)there is a valid UK, GB or NI authorisation to place the product on the market;\n(c)the product has not already been the subject of a certificate;\n(d)the authorisation referred to in point (b) is the first UK, GB or NI authorisation to place the product on the market as a medicinal product in the territory of the United Kingdom, the territory of England and Wales and Scotland or the territory of Northern Ireland as the case may be.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 54 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1471, regs. 1(2), 3(5)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/469/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:28.305403+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."
}