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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-amendment-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3196",
  "legislation_title": "The International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs (Amendment) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-carriage-of-perishable-foodstuffs-amendment-regulations-2000",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the definition in regulation 2 of the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Regulations 1985 of the Agreement on the International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs and on the Special Equipment to be used for such Carriage (ATP) concluded on 1st September 1970, to take into account further amendments to the Agreement.\nTwo of the amendments affect Articles 5 and 10 of the Agreement (ATP); a further amendment is to Annex 1 of the Agreement:\n(a) the amendment to Article 5 clarifies the definition of containers when used for the transportation of perishable foodstuffs;\n(b) the amendment to Article 10 prevents new Contracting Parties who choose not to apply ATP on their territories from blocking proposals to amend the Agreement;\n(c) the amendment to Annex 1 is a text correction, to reflect the previously agreed increase in the period of validity of design type approval from three to six years.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3196/note",
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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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