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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1159/article-16",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1159",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 911/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Earth monitoring programme (GMES) by establishing registration and licensing conditions for GMES users and defining criteria for restricting access to GMES dedicated data and GMES service information (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1159",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Balance of interests",
  "text": "1. In the assessment of the sensitivity of the GMES dedicated data and GMES service information in accordance with Article 12, security interests shall be balanced against the interests of users and the environmental, societal and economic benefits of the collection, production and open dissemination of the data and information in question.\n2. The Commission shall consider, when making its security assessment, whether restrictions will be effective if similar data are in any event available from other sources.",
  "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/2013/1159/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:14.403744+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."
}