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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-communities-recognition-of-qualifications-and-experience-third-general-system-regulations-2002/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1597",
  "legislation_title": "The European Communities (Recognition of Qualifications and Experience) (Third General System) Regulations 2002",
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  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations, “the Directive” means the Directive 1999/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7th June 1999 establishing a mechanism for the recognition of qualifications in respect of the professional activities covered by the Directives on liberalisation and transitional measures and supplementing the general systems for the recognition of qualifications.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "OJ L201/77 of 31 July 1999, extended to the EEA by Decision of the EEA Joint Committee 88/2000, adopted on 27 October 2000, OJ (supplement) L007/05 of 1 January 2001."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1597/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:54:29.412277+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."
}