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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2447/article-249",
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  "legislation": "eur/2015/2447",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2447 of 24 November 2015 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the Union Customs Code",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-2447",
  "path": "article/249",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "249",
  "heading": "Abandonment of goods(Article 199 of the Code)",
  "text": "1. The customs authorities may reject a request for a permission to abandon goods to the State in accordance with Article 199 of the Code where any of the following conditions is fulfilled:\n(a) the goods cannot be sold within the customs territory of the Union or the cost of that sale would be disproportionate to the value of the goods;\n(b) the goods are to be destroyed.\n2. A request for the abandonment to the State shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with Article 199 of the Code where the customs authorities have made a public appeal for the owner of the goods to come forward and 90 days have passed without the owner doing so.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/2447/article/249",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:10.501600+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."
}