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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-rules-1992/schedule-1/crossheading-article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-rules-1992/schedule-1/crossheading-article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3162",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-rules-1992",
  "path": "schedule/1/crossheading/article-2",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Article 2",
  "text": "Any product protected by a patent in the territory of a Member State and subject, prior to being placed on the market as a medicinal product, to an administrative authorization procedure as laid down in Council Directive 65/65/EEC or Directive 81/851/EEC may, under the terms and conditions provided for in this Regulation, be the subject of a certificate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L22, 9.12.1965, p.369. Last amended by Directive 89/341/EEC (OJ No L142, 25.5.1989, p.11)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L317, 6.11.1981, p.1. Amended by Directive 90/676/EEC (OJ No L373, 31.12.1990, p.15)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3162/schedule/1/crossheading/article-2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:09:04.666333+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."
}