{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-609/article-14",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/609",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 609/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control and repealing Council Directive 92/52/EEC, Commission Directives 96/8/EC, 1999/21/EC, 2006/125/EC and 2006/141/EC, Directive 2009/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Regulations (EC) No 41/2009 and (EC) No 953/2009 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-609",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Technical guidelines",
  "text": "The Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers may adopt technical guidelines to facilitate compliance by food business operators, in particular small or medium sized enterprises as defined in the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, with this Chapter and Chapter III , as it applies in their territory. For the purposes of this Article, the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises is to be read as if—\na) in Article 2—\ni) in paragraph 1, for “EUR 50 million, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million” there were substituted “£44,000,000, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding £38,000,000”;\nii) in paragraph 2, for “EUR 10 million” there were substituted “£8,800,000”;\niii) in paragraph 3, for “EUR 2 million” there were substituted “£1,750,000”;\nb) in Article 3—\ni) in paragraph 2(a), for “EUR 1 250 000” there were substituted “£1,100,000”;\nii) in paragraph 2(d), for “EUR 10 million” there were substituted “£8,800,000”;\niii) in paragraph 5, for “by national or Community rules” there were substituted “under the law of Great Britain (or any part of it)”;\nc) in Article 5, in paragraph (b), for “national law” there were substituted “the law of Great Britain (or any part of it)”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 14 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 19(11)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1476, regs. 1(2), 5(4)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 14 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 19(11)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 14 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Nutrition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/651), regs. 1(1), 19(11)(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1476, regs. 1(2), 5(4)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/609/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:33.556400+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."
}