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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-478/article-21",
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  "legislation": "eur/2015/478",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2015/478 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2015 on common rules for imports (codification)",
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  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where imports of a product have already been subject to a safeguard measure, no further measure shall be applied to that product until a period equal to the duration of the previous measure has elapsed. Such period shall not be less than 2 years.\n2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, a safeguard measure of 180 days or less may be re-imposed for a product if:\n(a) at least 1 year has elapsed since the date of introduction of a safeguard measure on the import of that product; and\n(b) such a safeguard measure has not been applied to the same product more than twice in the 5-year period immediately preceding the date of introduction of the measure.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/478/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:47.445121+00:00"
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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."
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