{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-608/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-608/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/608",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 608/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 concerning customs enforcement of intellectual property rights and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1383/2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-608",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Exchange of data on decisions relating to applications and detentions between the United Kingdom and the Commission",
  "text": "1. The competent customs departments may notify the Commission of the following:\n(a) decisions granting applications, including the application and its attachments;\n(b) decisions extending the period during which the customs authorities are to take action or decisions revoking the decision granting the application or amending it;\n(c) the suspension of a decision granting the application.\n2. Where the release of the goods is suspended or the goods are detained, the customs authorities may transmit to the Commission any relevant information, except personal data, including information on the quantity and type of the goods, value, intellectual property rights, customs procedures, countries of provenance, origin and destination, and transport routes and means.\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n5. Upon request by the Commission, the customs authorities may share such information with the Commission as they consider necessary for the application of this Regulation.\n6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31(1) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(b) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 31(2) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(c)(i) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Art. 31(2) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(c)(ii) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 31(3) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(d) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 31(4) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(d) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 31(5) substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(e) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Art. 31(6) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(f) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 31(7) omitted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(f) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 31 heading substituted (except in relation to goods entering Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland or exiting Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland) (31.12.2020) by The Customs (Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/514), regs. 1(2), 23(a) (with reg. 1(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/608/article/31",
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  },
  "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."
}