{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-125/annex-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-125/annex-IV.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/125",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/125 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 January 2019 concerning trade in certain goods which could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (codification)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-125",
  "path": "annex/IV",
  "kind": "appendix",
  "number": "ANNEX IV",
  "heading": "GOODS THAT COULD BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 16",
  "text": "Commodity code\nDescription\n1. Products which could be used for the execution of human beings by means of lethal injection, as follows:\n1.1. Short and intermediate acting barbiturate anaesthetic agents including, but not limited to:\nex 2933 53 90\n[(a) to (f)]\nex 2933 59 95\n[(g) and (h)]\n(a)amobarbital (CAS RN 57-43-2)\n(b)amobarbital sodium salt (CAS RN 64-43-7)\n(c)pentobarbital (CAS RN 76-74-4)\n(d)pentobarbital sodium salt (CAS 57-33-0)\n(e)secobarbital (CAS RN 76-73-3)\n(f)secobarbital sodium salt (CAS RN 309-43-3)\n(g)thiopental (CAS RN 76-75-5)\n(h)thiopental sodium salt (CAS RN 71-73-8), also known as thiopentone sodium\nex 3003 90 00\nex 3004 90 00\nex 3824 90 96\nNote: This item also controls products containing one of the anaesthetic agents listed under short or intermediate acting barbiturate anaesthetic agents.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Torture etc. Goods (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1479), regs. 1, 2(39) (with reg. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1502, regs. 1(2), 13, 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/125/annex/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:37.641055+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."
}