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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-223/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/223",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 223/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2014 on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-223",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Scope of support",
  "text": "1. The Fund shall support national schemes whereby food and/or basic material assistance, are distributed to the most deprived persons through partner organisations selected by Member States.\nWith the view to augmenting and diversifying the supply of food for the most deprived persons, as well as reducing and preventing food wastage, the Fund may support activities related to the collection, transport, storage and distribution of food donations.\nThe Fund may also support accompanying measures, complementing the provision of food and/or basic material assistance.\n2. The Fund shall support activities contributing to the social inclusion of the most deprived persons.\n3. The Fund shall promote, at Union level, mutual learning, networking and dissemination of good practices in the area of non-financial assistance to the most deprived persons.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/223/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:54.639937+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."
}