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REGULATION (EC) No 401/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 23 April 2009 on the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Codified version)
REGULATION (EC) No 401/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 23 April 2009
on the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network
(Codified version)
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
1. Ħarsa ġenerali
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Article 1
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Article 2
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Article 2
For the purposes of achieving the objective set out in Article 1, the tasks of the Agency shall be:
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to establish, in cooperation with the Member States, and coordinate the Network referred to in Article 4; in this context, the Agency shall be responsible for the collection, processing and analysis of data, in particular in the fields referred to in Article 3;
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to provide the Community and the Member States with the objective information necessary for framing and implementing sound and effective environmental policies; to that end, in particular to provide the Commission with the information that it needs to be able to carry out successfully its tasks of identifying, preparing and evaluating measures and legislation in the field of the environment;
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to assist the monitoring of environmental measures through appropriate support for reporting requirements (including through involvement in the development of questionnaires, the processing of reports from Member States and the distribution of results), in accordance with its multiannual work programme and with the aim of coordinating reporting;
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to advise individual Member States, upon their request and where this is consistent with the Agency’s annual work programme, on the development, establishment and expansion of their systems for the monitoring of environmental measures, provided such activities do not endanger the fulfilment of the other tasks established by this Article; such advice may also include peer reviews by experts at the specific request of Member States;
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to record, collate and assess data on the state of the environment, to draw up expert reports on the quality, sensitivity and pressures on the environment within the territory of the Community, to provide uniform assessment criteria for environmental data to be applied in all Member States, to develop further and maintain a reference centre of information on the environment; the Commission shall use this information in its task of ensuring the implementation of Community legislation on the environment;
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to help ensure that environmental data at European level are comparable and, if necessary, to encourage by appropriate means improved harmonisation of methods of measurement;
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to promote the incorporation of European environmental information into international environment monitoring programmes such as those established by the United Nations and its specialised agencies;
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to publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every five years, supplemented by indicator reports focusing upon specific issues;
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to stimulate the development and application of environmental forecasting techniques so that adequate preventive measures can be taken in good time;
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to stimulate the development of methods of assessing the cost of damage to the environment and the costs of environmental preventive, protection and restoration policies;
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to stimulate the exchange of information on the best technologies available for preventing or reducing damage to the environment;
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to cooperate with the bodies and programmes referred to in Article 15;
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to ensure the broad dissemination of reliable and comparable environmental information, in particular on the state of the environment, to the general public and, to this end, to promote the use of new telematics technology for this purpose;
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to support the Commission in the process of exchange of information on the development of environmental assessment methodologies and best practice;
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to assist the Commission in the diffusion of information on the results of relevant environmental research and in a form which can best assist policy development;
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to develop assessment methodologies relating to chemicals in the fields falling within its mandate.
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Article 3
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Article 4
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Article 5
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Article 5
The Agency may agree with the institutions or bodies which form part of the Network, as referred to in Article 4, upon the necessary arrangements, in particular contracts, for successfully carrying out the tasks which it may entrust to them.
A Member State may provide, as regards the national institutions or organisations in its territory, that such arrangements with the Agency shall be made in agreement with the national focal point.
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Article 6
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Article 7
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Article 7
The Agency shall have legal personality. It shall enjoy in all the Member States the most extensive legal capacity accorded to legal persons under their laws.
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Article 8
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Article 9
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Article 10
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Article 10a
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Article 11
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Article 12
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Article 13
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Article 14
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Article 14
The financial rules applicable to the Agency shall be adopted by the Management Board after the Commission has been consulted. They may not depart from Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2343/2002 of 19 November 2002 on the framework Financial Regulation for the bodies referred to in Article 185 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (
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Article 15
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Article 16
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Article 16
The Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Communities shall apply to the Agency.
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Article 17
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Article 17
The staff of the Agency shall be subject to the Regulations and Rules applicable to officials and other servants of the European Communities.
The Agency shall exercise in respect of its staff the powers devolved to the Appointing Authority.
The Management Board shall, in agreement with the Commission, adopt the appropriate implementing rules.
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Article 18
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Article 19
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Article 19
The Agency is open to countries which are not members of the Community but which share the concern of the Community and the Member States for the objectives of the Agency under agreements concluded between them and the Community following the procedure in Article 300 of the Treaty.
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Article 20
Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90, as amended by the Regulations listed in Annex II, is repealed.
References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III.
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Article 21
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Article 21
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
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ANNEX I
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ANNEX I
A.
Cooperation with the Joint Research Centre
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Harmonisation of environmental measurement methods (
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Intercalibration of instruments (3) .
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Standardisation of data formats.
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Development of new environmental measurement methods and instruments.
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Other tasks as agreed between the Executive Director of the Agency and the Director-General of the Joint Research Centre.
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Cooperation with Eurostat
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The Agency shall use, as far as possible, information collected via the official Community statistical services. That results from the work of Eurostat and the national statistical services in collecting, validating and disseminating social and economic statistics, including national accounts and related information.
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The statistical programme in the field of the environment shall be agreed between the Executive Director of the Agency and the Director-General of Eurostat and shall be submitted for approval to the Management Board of the Agency and the Statistical Programme Committee.
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The statistical programme shall be conceived and implemented within the framework established by the international statistical bodies, such as the UN Statistical Commission, the Conference of European Statisticians and the OECD.
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ANNEX II Repealed Regulation with list of its successive amendments
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ANNEX II
Repealed Regulation with list of its successive amendments
(referred to in Article 20)
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Council Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90
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(OJ L 120, 11.5.1990, p. 1).
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Council Regulation (EC) No 933/1999
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(OJ L 117, 5.5.1999, p. 1).
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Regulation (EC) No 1641/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
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(OJ L 245, 29.9.2003, p. 1).
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ANNEX III CORRELATION TABLE
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ANNEX III
CORRELATION TABLE
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Regulation (EEC) No 1210/90
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This Regulation
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Article 1(1)
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Article 1(1)
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Article 1(2), introductory wording
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Article 1(2), introductory wording
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Article 1(2), first indent
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Article 1(2), point (a)
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Article 1(2), second indent
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Article 1(2), point (b)
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Article 2, introductory wording
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Article 2, introductory wording
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Article 2, point (i)
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Article 2, point (a)
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Article 2, point (ii), first indent
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Article 2, point (b)
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Article 2, point (ii), second indent
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Article 2, point (c)
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Article 2, point (ii), third indent
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Article 2, point (d)
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Article 2, point (iii)
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Article 2, point (e)
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Article 2, point (iv)
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Article 2, point (f)
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Article 2, point (v)
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Article 2, point (g)
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Article 2, point (vi)
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Article 2, point (h)
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Article 2, point (vii)
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Article 2, point (i)
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Article 2, point (viii)
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Article 2, point (j)
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Article 2, point (ix)
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Article 2, point (k)
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Article 2, point (x)
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Article 2, point (l)
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Article 2, point (xi)
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Article 2, point (m)
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Article 2, point (xii)
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Article 2, point (n)
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Article 2, point (xiii)
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Article 2, point (o)
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Article 3(1), introductory wording
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Article 3(1), introductory wording
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Article 3(1), point (i)
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Article 3(1), point (a)
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Article 3(1), point (ii)
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Article 3(1), point (b)
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Article 3(1), point (iii)
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Article 3(1), point (c)
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Article 3(1), final wording
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Article 3(1), final wording
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Article 3(2), first subparagraph
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Article 3(2), first subparagraph
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, introductory wording
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, introductory wording
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, first indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (a)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, second indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (b)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, third indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (c)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, fourth indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (d)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, fifth indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (e)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, sixth indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (f)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, seventh indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (g)
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, eighth indent
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Article 3(2), second subparagraph, point (h)
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Article 3(2), third subparagraph
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Article 3(2), third subparagraph
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Article 3(2), fourth subparagraph
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Article 3(2), fourth subparagraph
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Article 3(3)
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Article 3(3)
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Article 4(1), introductory wording
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Article 4(1), introductory wording
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Article 4(1), first indent
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Article 4(1), point (a)
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Article 4(1), second indent
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Article 4(1), point (b)
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Article 4(1), third indent
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Article 4(1), point (c)
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Article 4(2), first subparagraph, from ‘to’ to ‘networks’
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Article 4(2), first subparagraph, from ‘especially’ to ‘territory’
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Article 4(2), first subparagraph, final wording
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Article 4(2), second subparagraph
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Article 4(2), first, second and third subparagraphs
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Article 4(3)
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Article 4(3)
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Article 4(4)
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Article 4(4), first, second and third subparagraphs
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Article 4(5), first subparagraph
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Article 4(5), second subparagraph
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Article 4(5)
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Article 4(6) and (7)
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Article 4(6) and (7)
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Article 5
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Article 5, first and second subparagraphs
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Article 6(1)
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Article 6(2)
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Article 6(3)
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Article 6(2)
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Articles 7 and 8
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, first sentence
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, introductory wording
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, first indent
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Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (a)
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, second indent
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Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (b)
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, third indent
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Article 9(1), third subparagraph point (c)
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, fourth indent
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Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (d)
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Article 9(1), first subparagraph, fifth indent
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Article 9(1), third subparagraph, point (e)
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Article 9(1), second subparagraph
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Article 9(1), fourth subparagraph
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Article 9(2)
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Article 9(2)
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Article 10
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Article 10
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Article 11
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Article 11
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Article 12
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Article 12
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Article 13
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Article 13
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Article 14
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Article 14
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Article 15(1), introductory wording
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Article 15(1), introductory wording
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Article 15(1), first indent
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Article 15(1), point (a)
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Article 15(1), second indent
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Article 15(1), point (b)
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Article 15(2)
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Article 15(2)
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Article 15(2a)
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Article 15(3)
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Article 15(3)
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Article 15(4)
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Article 16
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Article 16
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Article 17
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Article 17
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Article 18
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Article 18
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Article 19
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Article 19
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Article 20
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Article 20
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Article 21
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Article 21
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Annex
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Annex I
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Annex II
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Annex III
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1.1 Referenzi
1.2 Rekwiżiti identifikati
1.3 Standards relatati
2. Rekwiżiti identifikati
3. Standards relatati
Kwistjonijiet marbuta
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