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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-429/article-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2019/429",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/429 of 11 January 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/821 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the methodology and criteria for the assessment and recognition of supply chain due diligence schemes concerning tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General conditions for recognition of equivalence",
  "text": "1. A scheme shall be granted recognition of equivalence if the scheme's overarching due diligence principles, its requirements for economic operators participating in the scheme, and the specific responsibilities of the scheme itself are aligned with the applicable requirements of Regulation (EU) 2017/821.\n2. The requirements of paragraph 1 shall be considered met where the Commission considers that the conditions for the scheme to be rated as ‘fully aligned’ in accordance with Section 4 of the OECD Methodology are satisfied based on its assessment of all applicable specific criteria having regard both to the scheme's policies and standards and the scheme's implementation of them.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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