{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1379/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1379/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1379",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1184/2006 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1379",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Recognition of producer organisations",
  "text": "1. A fisheries administration may recognise as producer organisations all groups set up on the initiative of fishery or aquaculture producers which apply for such recognition, provided that they:\n(a) comply with the principles set out in Article 17 and with the rules adopted for their application;\n(b) are sufficiently economically active in the United Kingdom or a part thereof, in particular as regards the number of members or the volume of marketable production;\n(c) have legal personality, are established in the United Kingdom and have their official headquarters there;\n(d) are capable of pursuing the objectives laid down in Article 7;\n(e) comply with the competition rules referred to in Chapter V;\n(f) do not abuse a dominant position on a given market; and\n(g) provide relevant details of their membership, governance and sources of funding.\n2. Producer organisations recognised before 29 December 2013 shall be considered to be producer organisations for the purposes of this Regulation, and to be bound by its provisions.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 14(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 19(13)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 14(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 19(13)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 14(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Fisheries Policy (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/739), regs. 1, 19(13)(a)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1379/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:03.721752+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."
}