{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2403/annex-I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2403/annex-I.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/2403",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 of 15 December 2015 establishing common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques for ensuring that deactivated firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2403",
  "path": "annex/I",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Technical specifications for the deactivation of firearms",
  "text": "The deactivation operations to be performed in order to render firearms irreversibly inoperable are defined on the basis of three tables:\nTable I lists the different types of firearms,\nTable II sets out the general principles to be followed when rendering firearms irreversibly inoperable,\nTable III describes the specific operations per type of firearm to be performed to render the firearms irreversibly inoperable.\nThe technical specifications for the deactivation of firearms should prevent the reactivation of firearms with the use of ordinary tools.\nThe technical specifications for the deactivation of firearms focus on the deactivation of essential components of firearms .... The technical specifications for the deactivation of firearms set out in Annex I also apply to the deactivation of exchange barrels which, being separate objects, are technically linked with and intended to be mounted on the firearm to be deactivated.\n...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/337 of 5 March 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2403 establishing common guidelines on deactivation standards and techniques for ensuring that deactivated firearms are rendered irreversibly inoperable (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 58(10)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/742), regs. 1, 58(10)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/2403/annex/I",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:13.696695+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."
}