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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persistent-organic-pollutants-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/297",
  "legislation_title": "The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persistent-organic-pollutants-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade at 9.20 a.m. on 11th March 2025\nLaid before Parliament at 4.30 p.m. on 11th March 2025\nComing into force 1st April 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 15(1) and 18(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants (recast) (“the POPs Regulation”).\nThe Scottish Ministers and the Welsh Ministers have consented to the Secretary of State making these Regulations, in accordance with Article 2A of the POPs Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "EUR 2019/1021, amended by S.I. 2020/1358 and S.I. 2025/296; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
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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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