{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-125/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-125/article-4.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": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Import prohibition",
  "text": "1. Any import of goods listed in Annex II shall be prohibited, irrespective of the origin of such goods.\nThe acceptance by a person, entity or body in the United Kingdom of technical assistance related to goods listed in Annex II supplied from any country or territory outside of the United Kingdom, whether for consideration or not, by any person, entity or body shall be prohibited.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the competent authority may authorise an import of goods listed in Annex II, and the supply of related technical assistance, if it is demonstrated that, ... such goods will be used for the exclusive purpose of public display in a museum in view of their historic significance.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Torture etc. Goods (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1479), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)(i) (with reg. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1502, regs. 1(2), 13, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Trade in Torture etc. Goods (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1479), regs. 1, 2(5)(a)(ii) (with reg. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1502, regs. 1(2), 13, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Trade in Torture etc. Goods (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1479), regs. 1, 2(5)(b) (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/article/4",
    "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."
}