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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1333/article-2a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1333/article-2a.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2011/1333",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1333/2011 of 19 December 2011 laying down marketing standards for bananas, rules on the verification of compliance with those marketing standards and requirements for notifications in the banana sector (codification)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2011-1333",
  "path": "article/2a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2a",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1.) For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘third country’ means any country or territory other than:\n(a) the United Kingdom;\n(b) the Bailiwick of Jersey;\n(c) the Bailiwick of Guernsey;\n(d) the Isle of Man.\n(2.) For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘appropriate authority’ means:\n(a) in relation to England, the Secretary of State;\n(b) in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;\n(c) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.\n(3.) But the appropriate authority is the Secretary of State:\n(a) in relation to Scotland, if consent is given by the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 2a inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures (Marketing Standards) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/822), regs. 1, 2(4) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1453, regs. 1(2)(b), 10(2)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2011/1333/article/2a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:41.386562+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."
}