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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-617/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/617",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2009 of 13 July 2009 opening an autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality beef",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-617",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The import tariff quota referred to in Article 1 shall be managed by the Commission by means of implementing acts. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 2a(2).\n2. The Commission may suspend the application of the import tariff quota referred to in Article 1 by means of implementing acts, in whole or in part, in the event that either the United States or Canada do not take the steps planned in the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and the European Commission or in the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Canada and the European Commission , respectively. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 2a(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) No 464/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2012 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 617/2009 opening an autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality beef."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the European Commission Regarding the Importation of Beef from Animals Not Treated with Certain Growth-Promoting Hormones and Increased Duties Applied by the United States to Certain Products of the European Communities, endorsed by the Council by letter of 12 May 2009 and signed in Geneva on 13 May 2009 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Canada and the European Commission Regarding the Importation of Beef from Animals Not Treated with Certain Growth-Promoting Hormones and Increased Duties Applied by Canada to Certain Products of the European Union, signed in Geneva on 17 March 2011 ."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/617/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}