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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-19/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/19",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 19/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Columbia, Peru and Ecuador, of the other part",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-19",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Principles",
  "text": "1. A safeguard measure may be imposed in accordance with this Regulation where a product originating in Colombia, Ecuador or Peru is, as a result of tariff concessions on that product under the Agreement, imported into the Union in such increased quantities, in absolute terms or relative to Union production, and under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the Union industry.\n2. A safeguard measure may take one of the following forms:\n(a) a suspension of a further reduction of the rate of customs duty on the product concerned provided for in the Tariff Elimination Schedule;\n(b) an increase in the rate of customs duty on the product concerned to a level which does not exceed the lesser of:\nthe most-favoured-nation (‘MFN’) applied rate of customs duty on the product in effect at the time the measure is taken, or\nthe base rate as specified in the Tariff Elimination Schedule.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2017/540 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 amending Regulation (EU) No 19/2013 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and Colombia and Peru, of the other part, and amending Regulation (EU) No 20/2013 implementing the bilateral safeguard clause and the stabilisation mechanism for bananas of the Agreement establishing an Association between the European Union and its Member States, on the one hand, and Central America on the other."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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