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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303/annex-I/division-5/division-5.5/division-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1303",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1303",
  "path": "annex/I/division/5/division/5.5/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The challenges resulting from demographic change, including in particular those related to a shrinking working population, an increasing proportion of retired people in the overall population and to depopulation, shall be taken into account at all levels. The relevant authority shall make use of support for rural development, in line with relevant national or regional strategies, where such strategies are in place, to tackle demographic problems and to create growth linked to an ageing society.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Annex 1 omitted (W.) in so far as it relates to domestic support for rural development (26.3.2021) by virtue of The Agricultural Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/400), regs. 1(2), 6(35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 para. 5.5(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 18(8)(e)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/785), regs. 1, 18(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1542, regs. 1(2), 13(11)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:08.647663+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."
}