{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1935/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1935/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/1935",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 2004 on materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and repealing Directives 80/590/EEC and 89/109/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1935",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Sharing of existing data",
  "text": "Information given in an application submitted in accordance with Articles 9(1), 10(2) and 12(2) may be used for the benefit of another applicant, provided that the Food Safety Authority considered that the substance is the same as the one for which the original application was submitted, including the degree of purity and the nature of impurities, and that the other applicant has agreed with the original applicant that such information may be used.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Materials and Articles in Contact with Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/704), regs. 1, 30; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1935/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:08.337254+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."
}