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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1639/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2018/1639",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1639 of 13 July 2018 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying further the elements of the code of conduct to be developed by administrators of benchmarks that are based on input data from contributors (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-1639",
  "path": "article/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Policies on the use of discretion when contributing input data",
  "text": "If the code of conduct provides for a contributor to use discretion in contributing input data, it shall require the contributor to establish policies on the use of discretion that specify at least the following:\n(a) the circumstances in which the contributor may exercise discretion;\n(b) the individuals within the contributor's organisation who are permitted to exercise discretion;\n(c) the internal controls that regulate the exercise of the contributor's discretion in accordance with its policies;\n(d) the individuals within the contributor's organisation who are authorised to conduct an ex post evaluation of the exercise of discretion.",
  "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/2018/1639/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:51.333802+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."
}