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  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 519/2013 of 21 February 2013 adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement for persons, right of establishment and freedom to provide services, company law, competition policy, agriculture, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, fisheries, transport policy, energy, taxation, statistics, social policy and employment, environment, customs union, external relations, and foreign, security and defence policy, by reason of the accession of Croatia",
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  "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 519/2013\nof 21 February 2013\nadapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement for persons, right of establishment and freedom to provide services, company law, competition policy, agriculture, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, fisheries, transport policy, energy, taxation, statistics, social policy and employment, environment, customs union, external relations, and foreign, security and defence policy, by reason of the accession of Croatia\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, and in particular Article 3(4) thereof,\nHaving regard to the Act of Accession of the Republic of Croatia, and in particular Article 50 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nPursuant to Article 50 of the Act of Accession, where acts of the institutions adopted prior to accession require adaptation by reason of accession, and the necessary adaptations have not been provided for in the Act of Accession or its Annexes, the Commission, if the original act was adopted by the Commission, shall, to this end, adopt the necessary acts.\n(2)\nThe Final Act of the Conference which drew up the Treaty of Accession indicated that the High Contracting Parties had reached political agreement on a set of adaptations to acts adopted by the institutions required by reason of accession and invited the Council and the Commission to adopt these adaptations before accession, completed and updated where necessary to take account of the evolution of the law of the Union.\n(3)\nThe following Commission Regulations should therefore be amended accordingly:\nin the field of the free movement of goods: Regulations (EC) No 1474/2000, (EC) No 1488/2001, (EC) No 706/2007, (EC) No 692/2008, (EU) No 406/2010, (EU) No 578/2010, (EU) No 1008/2010, (EU) No 109/2011, (EU) No 286/2011 and (EU) No 582/2011,\nin the field of competition policy: Regulations (EC) No 773/2004 and (EC) No 802/2004,\nin the field of agriculture: Regulation (EEC) No 120/89, (EC) No 1439/95, (EC) No 2390/98, (EC) No 2298/2001, (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 462/2003, (EC) No 1342/2003, (EC) No 1518/2003, (EC) No 793/2006, (EC) No 951/2006, (EC) No 972/2006, (EC) No 1850/2006, (EC) No 1898/2006, (EC) No 1301/2006, (EC) No 1964/2006, (EC) No 341/2007, (EC) No 533/2007, (EC) No 536/2007, (EC) No 539/2007, (EC) No 616/2007, (EC) No 1216/2007, (EC) No 1385/2007, (EC) No 376/2008, (EC) No 402/2008, (EC) No 491/2008, (EC) No 543/2008, (EC) No 555/2008, (EC) No 589/2008, (EC) No 617/2008, (EC) No 619/2008, (EC) No 720/2008, (EC) No 889/2008, (EC) No 1235/2008, (EC) No 1295/2008, (EC) No 1296/2008, (EC) No 147/2009, (EC) No 436/2009, (EC) No 442/2009, (EC) No 607/2009, (EC) No 612/2009, (EC) No 828/2009, (EC) No 891/2009, (EC) No 1187/2009, (EU) No 1272/2009, (EU) No 1274/2009, (EU) No 234/2010, (EU) No 817/2010 and Implementing Regulations (EU) No 543/2011, (EU) No 1273/2011, (EU) No 29/2012 and (EU) No 480/2012,\nin the field of food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy: Regulations (EC) No 136/2004, (EC) No 911/2004, (EC) No 504/2008, (EC) No 798/2008, (EC) No 1251/2008, (EC) No 1291/2008, (EC) No 206/2009, (EU) No 206/2010, (EU) No 605/2010 and (EU) No 547/2011,\nin the field of fisheries: Regulations (EC) No 2065/2001, (EC) No 2306/2002 and (EC) No 248/2009,\nin the field of transport policy: Regulation (EU) No 36/2010,\nin the field of energy: Regulations (Euratom) No 302/2005 and (EC) No 1635/2006,\nin the field of taxation: Regulation (EC) No 684/2009 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 79/2012,\nin the field of statistics: Regulations (EC) No 1358/2003, (EC) No 772/2005, (EC) No 617/2008, (EC) No 250/2009, (EC) No 251/2009, (EU) No 88/2011 and (EU) No 555/2012,\nin the field of environment: Implementing Regulation (EU) No 757/2012,\nin the field of customs union: Regulations (EEC) No 2454/93, (EC) No 1891/2004 and Implementing Regulations (EU) No 1224/2011 and (EU) No 1225/2011,\nin the field of external relations: Regulations (EC) No 3168/94 and (EC) No 1418/2007,\n(4)\nThe following Commission Decisions should therefore be amended accordingly:\nin the field of the freedom of movement of persons: Decision 2001/548/EC,\nin the field of right of establishment and freedom to provide services: Decision 2009/767/EC,\nin the field of company law: Decision 2011/30/EU,\nin the field of food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy: Decisions 92/260/EEC, 93/195/EEC, 93/196/EEC, 93/197/EEC, 97/4/EC, 97/252/EC, 97/467/EC, 97/468/EC, 97/569/EC, 98/179/EC, 98/536/EC, 1999/120/EC, 1999/710/EC, 2001/556/EC, 2004/211/EC, 2006/168/EC, 2006/766/EC, 2006/778/EC, 2007/25/EC, 2007/453/EC, 2007/777/EC, 2009/821/EC, 2010/472/EU, 2011/163/EU and Implementing Decision 2011/630/EU,\nin the field of fisheries: Implementing Decision 2011/207/EU,\nin the field of transport policy: Decision 2007/756/EC,\nin the field of statistics: Decisions 91/450/EEC, Euratom and 2008/861/EC,\nin the field of social policy and employment: Decisions 98/500/EC and 2008/590/EC,\nin the field of environment: Decisions 2000/657/EC, 2001/852/EC, 2003/508/EC, 2004/382/EC, 2005/416/EC, 2005/814/EC, 2009/875/EC, 2009/966/EC and Implementing Decision 2012/C 177/05,\nin the field of foreign, security and defence policy: Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
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