{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-574/article-22",
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  "legislation": "eur/2018/574",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/574 of 15 December 2017 on technical standards for the establishment and operation of a traceability system for tobacco products (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-574",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Quality of the optical data carriers",
  "text": "1. Economic operators shall ensure high readability of the optical data carriers. A quality of the optical data carriers rated at least 3.5 in accordance with ISO/IEC 15415:2011 for the two-dimensional data carriers, or in accordance with ISO/IEC 15416:2016 for the linear symbols shall be presumed to fulfil the requirements set out in this Article.\n2. Economic operators shall ensure that the optical data carriers are capable of remaining readable for at least five years after their creation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/574/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:11.813780+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."
}