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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1220/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1220/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/1220",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2018/1220 of 6 September 2018 on the rules of procedure of the panel referred to in Article 143 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-1220",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "The economic operator's right to be heard",
  "text": "1. Except where there are compelling legitimate grounds to preserve the confidentiality of the investigation or of national judicial proceedings, the economic operator shall have the right to submit observations pursuant to Article 143(5) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046.\n2. A letter disclosing the facts and their preliminary classification in law, in which the Panel shall have regard only to documents which the economic operator has been able to examine, shall be sent to the economic operator subject to the provisions of Article 143(5) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046. In principal, this letter shall be sent by email.\n3. The economic operator shall submit observations to the secretariat in writing by email to the following address: Panel-secretariat-BUDG@ec.europa.eu or to the email address given in the letter indicating the facts, together with any annexes, as an ordinary electronic file produced using word-processing software.\n4. The written observations shall be no more than ten pages in length excluding annexes, except in duly justified cases involving complex legal or factual issues.\n5. As a general rule, the economic operator shall be granted a period of three weeks to submit observations. This period shall start on the day following the letter disclosing the facts and their preliminary classification in law. Where the economic operator has agreed contractually to communicate with the authorising officer responsible electronically, the letter notifying the operator of the facts shall be sent electronically.\n6. By way of an exception, following a reasoned request by the economic operator, a deadline may be extended, by no more than half the period initially granted.\n7. On the expiry of the deadline set, if there has been no duly reasoned request for an extension, or on the expiry of the extended deadline, the adversarial procedure shall be terminated.\n8. Where the Chair finds that the economic operator has not submitted observations by the prescribed deadline, the procedure shall continue and the Chair shall convene the Panel in order to adopt the recommendation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/1220/article/13",
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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."
}