{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1995-3017/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1995-3017/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1995/3017",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 3017/95 of 20 December 1995 laying down provisions for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 3036/94 establishing economic outward processing arrangements applicable to certain textile and clothing products reimported into the Community after working or processing in certain third countries",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1995-3017",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Verification of the application",
  "text": "1. Once they have received the application, accompanied by all documents and evidence, the competent authorities verify its content. They may request additional information if they consider the application is inexact or incomplete or does not enable them to conclude that all the conditions for granting an authorization are met.\n2. When an applicant lodges a request with the competent authorities in a different Member State to where he is established or his Community production takes place, these competent authorities shall consult the competent authorities of the Member States concerned. The latter authorities shall communicate any information requested as soon as possible and not later than two weeks after the date of the receipt of the request of information. Such consultations may be conducted in other cases where appropriate.\n3. Where a condition for granting a prior authorization is not satisfied, the competent authorities reject the application.\nThe decision to refuse an application shall be set down in writing and sent to the applicant with the grounds for refusal. Where the particulars provided by the applicant are incomplete, the competent authorities set a time limit for completion of the application, in which case the rejection may not precede the expiry of the time limit.\n4. If the competent authorities consider that all conditions for granting a prior authorization are satisfied, they communicate to the Commission the quantity, category and third country concerned, and in the event that the outward processing consists of obtaining from yarn fully fashioned knitwear, the weight of yarn to be temporarily exported.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1995/3017/article/4",
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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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