{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-2001/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-2001/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/880",
  "legislation_title": "The Biocidal Products Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Frame-formulations",
  "text": "(1) At the same time the Ministers grant an authorisation in respect of a biocidal product under regulation 9 or 13, or grant a registration in respect of a biocidal product under regulation 10 or 14—\n(a) they shall, when requested to do so by the applicant for that authorisation or that registration; or\n(b) they may, without being requested to do so,\nissue a frame-formulation which includes that biocidal product and they shall communicate that frame-formulation to that applicant.\n(2) Where an application is made under regulation 9, 10, 13 or 14 in respect of a biocidal product within an issued frame-formulation, the Ministers shall take that issued frame-formulation into account in evaluating the dossiers submitted with the application in question.\n(3) Where a person makes an application for an authorisation under regulation 9 or 13 and that person has a letter of access in respect of the information relating to the biocidal products within an issued frame-formulation, the Ministers shall decide whether or not to grant the authorisation within 60 days of their receiving the application.\n(4) In this regulation, “issued frame-formulation” means a frame-formulation issued by the Ministers in accordance with paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/880/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:56:49.061238+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."
}