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  "legislation": "eur/2012/389",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 389/2012 of 2 May 2012 on administrative cooperation in the field of excise duties and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2073/2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-389",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Competent authorities",
  "text": "1. Each Member State shall designate the competent authority in whose name this Regulation is to be applied. It shall inform the Commission about that designation and about any subsequent change thereof without delay.\nCroatia shall inform the Commission by 1 July 2013 of its competent authority.\n2. The Commission shall make available a list of the competent authorities and publish this information in the Official Journal of the European Union.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "text": "Inserted by Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013 adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement for persons, company law, competition policy, agriculture, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, transport policy, energy, taxation, statistics, trans-European networks, judiciary and fundamental rights, justice, freedom and security, environment, customs union, external relations, foreign, security and defence policy and institutions, by reason of the accession of the Republic of Croatia."
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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."
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