Schedule 5 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014, Article 14: new paragraphs 3, 3a, 3b and 4

“3.

Where the Secretary of State approves an amendment to a product specification and the change in the product specification affects other information recorded in the relevant register, the Secretary of State must delete the original data, record the new data in the register and attach a copy of the approved amended product specification to the register. The new data, and the provisions in the approved amended product specification, take effect immediately after the expiry of 20 days beginning with the day on which the new data is recorded in the register and the copy of the amended product specification is attached to the register or, if a copy of the amended product specification is attached to the register at a later date, immediately after the expiry of 20 days beginning with the day on which the copy of the amended product specification is attached to the register.

Where the Secretary of State approves an amendment to a product specification and the change in the product specification does not affect other information recorded in the relevant register, the Secretary of State must replace the copy of the product specification attached to the entry in the register with a copy of the approved amended product specification. The provisions in the approved amended product specification take effect immediately after the expiry of 20 days beginning with the day on which the copy of the approved amended product specification is attached to the register.

3a

Where the Secretary of State receives a communication of the type referred to in Article 6(3a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 relating to a temporary amendment of a product specification concerning the production of a product originating in a third country, the Secretary of State must include an entry in the relevant register relating to the temporary amendment of the product specification. The temporary amendment takes effect from the time that entry is made. From that time the provisions of the product specification attached to the register apply as read with those temporary amendments until the entry relating to the temporary amendment is removed from the register.

3b

Where the Secretary of State approves an application to amend a product specification to which Article 6(4) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 applies (an application for a temporary amendment to a product specification concerning the production of products originating in the United Kingdom), the Secretary of State must include an entry in the relevant register relating to the temporary amendment of the product specification. The temporary amendment takes effect from the time that entry is made. From that time the provisions of the product specification attached to the register apply as read with those temporary amendments until the entry relating to the temporary amendment is removed from the register.

4.

Where the Secretary of State makes a decision to cancel a protected designation of origin, protected geographical indication or traditional speciality guaranteed pursuant to Article 54 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, the Secretary of State must delete the name from the register concerned. The cancellation takes effect from the day after the day on which the entry is deleted from the register.”