{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/469",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 May 2009 concerning the supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products (Codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-469",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Grant of the certificate or rejection of the application for a certificate",
  "text": "1. Where the application for a certificate and the product to which it relates meet the conditions laid down in this Regulation, the comptroller shall grant the certificate.\n2. The comptroller shall, subject to paragraph 3, reject the application for a certificate if the application or the product to which it relates does not meet the conditions laid down in this Regulation or any prescribed fee is not paid.\n3. Where the application for a certificate does not meet the conditions laid down in Article 8 or the prescribed fee relating to the application has not been paid, the comptroller shall ask the applicant to rectify the irregularity, or to settle the fee, within a stated time.\n4. If the irregularity is not rectified or the fee is not settled under paragraph 3 within the stated time, the comptroller shall reject the application.\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n6. Paragraphs 1 to 4 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the application for an extension of the duration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 10(1)-(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 57(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 57(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 57(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 57(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 10(5) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 57(6); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/469/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:28.305403+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."
}