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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-755/article-7",
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  "legislation": "eur/2015/755",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2015/755 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on common rules for imports from certain third countries (recast)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-755",
  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where the Union's interests so require, the Commission may, at the request of a Member State or on its own initiative:\n(a) decide to introduce retrospective Union surveillance of certain imports, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the Commission;\n(b) decide, for the purposes of monitoring the trend of these imports, to make certain imports subject to prior Union surveillance, in accordance with Article 8.\n2. Decisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be taken by the Commission in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 22(2).\n3. The surveillance measures shall have a limited period of validity. Unless otherwise provided for, they shall cease to be valid at the end of the second six-month period following the six months in which the measures were introduced.",
  "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/2015/755/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:42.328192+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."
}