{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-574/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-574/article-23.json",
  "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/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Human-readable code",
  "text": "1. Economic operators shall ensure that each data carrier includes a human-readable code that enables electronic access to the information related to the unique identifiers stored in the data repository.\n2. Where the dimensions of the packaging allow, the human-readable code shall be adjacent to the optical data carrier carrying the unique identifier.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 23(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Tobacco Products (Traceability System and Security Features) (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1496), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 26 (with regs. 3(2)(3), 4-6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/574/article/23",
    "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."
}