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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1053",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 1053/2013 of 7 October 2013 establishing an evaluation and monitoring mechanism to verify the application of the Schengen acquis and repealing the Decision of the Executive Committee of 16 September 1998 setting up a Standing Committee on the evaluation and implementation of Schengen",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Purpose and scope",
  "text": "1. This Regulation establishes an evaluation and monitoring mechanism, which serves the following purposes:\n(a) to verify application of the Schengen acquis in the Member States to which it applies in full as well as in Member States to which, in accordance with the relevant Protocols annexed to the TEU and to the TFEU, the Schengen acquis applies in part;\n(b) to verify that the necessary conditions for the application of all relevant parts of the Schengen acquis have been met in those Member States in respect of which a Council decision stating that the provisions of the Schengen acquis are to apply in full or in part has not been taken, with the exception of those Member States whose evaluation will already have been completed at the time of entry into force of this Regulation.\n2. The verification referred to in paragraph 1(b) of this Article is without prejudice to the second paragraph of Article 23 as regards Member States in which the evaluation procedures have already commenced at 26 November 2013.\n3. Experts from the Member States which, in accordance with the relevant Act of Accession, do not yet fully apply the Schengen acquis shall nevertheless participate in the evaluation of all parts of the Schengen acquis.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1053/article/1",
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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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