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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469/article-4",
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  "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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Subject matter of protection",
  "text": "Within the limits of the protection conferred by the basic patent, the protection conferred by a certificate shall extend only to the product covered by the UK, GB or NI authorisation to place the corresponding medicinal product on the market and for any use of the product as a medicinal product that has been authorised in the United Kingdom before the expiry of the certificate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Supplementary Protection Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1471), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 12(a) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Supplementary Protection Certificates (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1471), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 12(b) (with reg. 7)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/469/article/4",
    "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."
}