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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-389/article-5",
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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",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Competent officials",
  "text": "1. The competent authority of each Member State may designate, under the conditions laid down by the Member State, competent officials who may exchange information directly under this Regulation.\nThe competent authority may limit the scope of such designation.\nThe central excise liaison office shall be responsible for keeping the list of competent officials up to date and making it available to the central excise liaison offices of the other Member States concerned.\n2. The officials exchanging information under Articles 12 and 13 shall be deemed to be competent officials for the purpose of those Articles, in accordance with the conditions laid down by the competent authorities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/389/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:27.037868+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."
}