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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997/schedule-1/crossheading-3/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/64",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificates) Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificates-rules-1997",
  "path": "schedule/1/crossheading/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Conditions for obtaining a certificate",
  "text": "A certificate shall be granted if, in the Member State in which the application referred to in Article 7 is submitted, at the date of that application:\n(a) the product is protected by a basic patent in force;\n(b) a valid authorization to place the product on the market as a plant protection product has been granted in accordance with Article 4 of Directive 91/414/EEC or an equivalent provision of national law;\n(c) the product has not already been the subject of a certificate;\n(d) the authorization referred to in (b) is the first authorization to place the product on the market as a plant protection product.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/64/schedule/1/crossheading/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:47.107599+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."
}