# Regulation (EU) 2015/479 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2015 on common rules for exports (codification), Article 5

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The Secretary of State may, in order to prevent a critical situation arising on account of a shortage of essential products or to remedy such a situation, make regulations which provide for the export of a product to be subject to the production of an export authorisation, the granting of which is subject to such limits as the regulations may prescribe, having regard to the nature of the product or other particular features of the transaction in question.
2. Regulations under paragraph 1—
(a) may provide for any measures imposed by them to be limited to exports to certain countries or to exports from certain regions of Great Britain;
(b) must provide that any measures imposed by them do not apply to products already on the way to the United Kingdom border for the purposes of export at the time when those regulations come into force.
3. Regulations under paragraph 1 must also provide that they are to cease to have effect at whichever is the earlier of —
(a) the end of the period of six weeks beginning with the date on which those regulations come into force; or
(b) the date on which regulations under Article 6 come into force in respect of the same shortage of essential products.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/479/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-479/article-5
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