{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-38/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-38/article-4.json",
  "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/4",
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  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Format of the information exchanged",
  "text": "1. The format of the information exchanged between Member States, third countries and the Commission in accordance with Articles 11, 18, 22 and 25 of the SMEFF Regulation shall be the Fishing License Authorization & Permit (FLAP) Domain XML Schema Definition based on the United Nations Fisheries Language for Universal Exchange (UN/FLUX) P1000-9 standard.\n2. Data fields, core components and well-formatted Extensible Markup Language (XML) messages shall comply with the XML Schema Definition (XSD) based on the UN/FLUX standardisation libraries.\n3. The XSD and codes on the Master Data Register page of the European Commission Fisheries website shall be used.\n4. Member States shall use the FLAP implementation document available on the European Commission fisheries website to ensure that the correct messages are communicated and the correct procedures are followed for the Union fishing authorisations database.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}