{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1935/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1935/article-8.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/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "General requirements for the authorisation of substances",
  "text": "1. A person seeking an authorisation for a substance in accordance with a specific measure, where that substance has not yet been authorised by the appropriate authority, must submit an application in accordance with Article 9(1) and any relevant provisions in the specific measure concerned.\n2. No substance shall be authorised unless it has been adequately and sufficiently demonstrated that, when used under the conditions to be set out in the authorisation concerned, the final material or article satisfies the requirements of Article 3 and, where they apply, Article 4 and any relevant specific measures.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 8(1) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 11(4)(a) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 11(4)(b)(i) (with reg. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 8(2) inserted (1.4.2025) by The Food and Feed (Regulated Products) (Amendment, Revocation, Consequential and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/361), regs. 1(2), 11(4)(b)(ii) (with reg. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1935/article/8",
    "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."
}