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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-282/article-13",
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  "legislation": "eur/2008/282",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 282/2008 of 27 March 2008 on recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with foods and amending Regulation (EC) No 2023/2006 (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-282",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Transitional measures for the authorisation of recycling processes",
  "text": "1. For the initial authorisation phase of recycling processes, the procedure provided for in Articles 5, 6 and 7 shall apply subject to paragraphs 2 to 6 of this Article.\n2. During the 18 months following the publication of the guidelines for the safety assessment of a recycling process of the Authority as provided for in Article 5(2), business operators seeking authorisation shall submit an application in accordance with Article 5.\n3. The Commission shall make available to the public a register of recycling processes for which a valid application has been submitted in accordance with paragraph 2.\n4. The Authority shall issue an opinion on each recycling process for which a valid application has been submitted during the period referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article. The deadline of six months for issuing the opinion, as referred to in Article 5(3), shall not apply.\n5. Applications for which the Authority could not issue an opinion owing to the applicant’s failure to comply with the time limits specified for submission of supplementary information in accordance with Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004 shall be excluded from consideration for the initial authorisation.\n6. Within six months of receiving all the opinions referred to in paragraph 4, the Commission shall submit for opinion to the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health draft decisions granting or refusing authorisation of the recycling processes referred to in paragraph 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/282/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."
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