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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-625/annex-6/part-2/division-9",
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  "legislation": "eur/2017/625",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-625",
  "path": "annex/6/part/2/division/9",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In Article 50—\n(a)in paragraph 1(a), for the words from “, and kept” until the end substitute “the competent authority and, in a case where a consignment of relevant goods arriving from a relevant third country is selected for the performance of official controls, may be kept by the competent authority with responsibility for the place where the official controls are carried out (‘the responsible competent authority’);\n(b)in paragraph 2, for ... “The competent authorities” ... substitute “ In a case where a consignment of relevant goods arriving from a relevant third country is selected for official controls and the original official certificates or documents are kept by the responsible competent authority, that authority ... ”;\n(c)for paragraph 3 substitute—\n(3)“In a case where the responsible competent authority has notified the operator that official controls are to be performed on a consignment, that consignment must not be split until those official controls have been carried out.”\n.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Annex 6 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 29(4) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Annex 6 para. 9(a) substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 31(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 6 para. 9(b) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 31(4)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Annex 6 para. 9(b) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 31(4)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Annex 6 para. 9(b) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 31(4)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Annex 6 modified (4.3.2021) by The Official Controls and Phytosanitary Conditions (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/136), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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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