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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-38/article-3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/38",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/38 of 16 January 2020 establishing technical operational requirements for the recording, formatting and transmission of information pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2017/2403 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the sustainable management of external fishing fleets",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-38",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Applications for authorisation",
  "text": "1. When submitting applications for fishing authorisations in accordance with Article 39(3) of the SMEFF Regulation, Member States and third countries shall file one application per vessel, per agreement, per fishing category and per period.\n2. The vessel information available in the Union fishing fleet database shall be used by the Union fishing authorisations database to ensure data exchanges on fishing authorisations as required by the SMEFF Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/38/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:52.176478+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."
}