Article 1 ScopeF1

United Kingdom

(1.)

This Regulation lays down the procedure for the determination of the existing renewal application by the relevant competent authority as assessing competent authority.

(2.)

The “existing renewal application” is the application for the renewal of the approval of the active substance famoxadone which—

(a)

was made to the United Kingdom as rapporteur Member State in accordance with Article 4 as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, and

(b)

is taken as being made under this Regulation and Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 on the date on which it was made.

(3.)

Anything done under this Regulation as it had effect immediately before IP completion day in relation to the existing renewal application—

(a)

by the United Kingdom as rapporteur Member State;

(b)

by the European Food Safety Authority;

is taken to have been done by the relevant competent authority as the assessing competent authority.

(4.)

In this Article—

(a)

“rapporteur Member State” has the meaning given in Article 2(c) as it had effect immediately before IP completion day;

(b)

the “relevant competent authority” is the Secretary of State.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Art. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 15(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 3(12)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)