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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-502/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-502/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/502",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2019/502 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 March 2019 on common rules ensuring basic air connectivity with regard to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the Union (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-502",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Equivalence of rights",
  "text": "1. The Commission shall monitor the rights granted by the United Kingdom to Union air carriers and the conditions for their exercise.\n2. Where the Commission determines that the rights granted by the United Kingdom to Union air carriers are not, de jure or de facto, equivalent to those granted to UK air carriers under this Regulation, or that those rights are not equally available to all Union carriers, the Commission shall, without delay and in order to restore equivalence, adopt implementing acts to:\n(a) establish limits to the allowable capacity for scheduled air transport services available to UK air carriers and require the Member States to adapt the operating authorisations of UK air carriers, both existing and newly granted, accordingly;\n(b) require the Member States to refuse, suspend or revoke the said operating authorisations; or\n(c) impose financial duties or operational restrictions.\nThose implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 15(2). They shall be adopted in accordance with the urgency procedure referred to in Article 15(3) where, in duly justified cases of serious lack of equivalence for the purposes of paragraph 2, imperative grounds of urgency so require.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/502/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:29.975510+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."
}