{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-574/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-574/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Request and issuing of unit level UIs",
  "text": "1. Manufacturers and importers shall send a request to the ... ID issuer for unit level UIs referred to in Article 8. Requests shall be introduced electronically, in accordance with Article 36.\n2. Manufacturers and importers introducing such a request shall supply the information listed in point 2.1. of Section 2 of Chapter II of Annex II, in the format indicated therein.\n3. The ID issuer shall, within two working days from the receipt of the request and in the order indicated:\n(a) generate the codes referred to in Article 8(2);\n(b) transmit the codes along with the information referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article via the router to the data repository, as established under Article 26; and\n(c) electronically transmit the codes to the requesting manufacturer or importer.\n4. However, HMRC may require the ID issuer to offer physical delivery of unit level UIs as an alternative to electronic delivery. In cases where physical delivery of unit level UIs is offered, manufacturers and importers shall specify whether physical delivery is requested. In that case, the ID issuer shall within 10 working days from the receipt of the request, and in the following order:\n(a) generate the codes referred to in Article 8(2);\n(b) transmit the codes along with the information referred to in paragraph 2 via the router to the data repository, as established under Article 26;\n(c) deliver the codes to the requesting manufacturer or importer in the form of optical barcodes, compliant with Article 21, placed on physical carriers, such as adhesive labels.\n5. Within one working day, manufacturers and importers may cancel a request which was sent pursuant to paragraph 1 by means of a recall message as further defined in Point 5 of Section 5 of Chapter II of Annex II.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 9(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Tobacco Products (Traceability System and Security Features) (Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1496), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 10(a) (with regs. 3(2)(3), 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3)(b) 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. 10(b) (with regs. 3(2)(3), 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) 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. 10(c)(i) (with regs. 3(2)(3), 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4) 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. 10(c)(ii) (with regs. 3(2)(3), 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(4)(b) 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. 10(b) (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/9",
    "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."
}