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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persistent-organic-pollutants-amendment-no-3-regulations-2025/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/605",
  "legislation_title": "The Persistent Organic Pollutants (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/persistent-organic-pollutants-amendment-no-3-regulations-2025",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection\nMade at 11.37 a.m. on 20th May 2025\nLaid before Parliament at 4.30 p.m. on 20th May 2025\nComing into force 21st May 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 15(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, S.I. 2025/296 and 297; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/605/introduction",
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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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