# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 844/2012 of 18 September 2012 setting out the provisions necessary for the implementation of the renewal procedure for active substances, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market (Text with EEA relevance), Article 8: Admissibility of the application

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. Where the supplementary dossiers have been submitted by the date provided for in Article 6(3) and contain all the elements provided for in Article 7, the assessing competent authority shall, within a period of one month, inform the applicant and the other competent authorities of the date of receipt of the supplementary dossiers and of the admissibility of the application.
The assessing competent authority shall assess any requests for confidentiality. In the event of a request for access to information, the assessing competent authority shall decide what information is to be kept confidential.
2. Where the supplementary dossiers have been submitted by the date provided for in Article 6(3), but one or more elements provided for in Article 7 are missing, the assessing competent authority shall, within a period of one month from the date of receipt of the supplementary dossiers, inform the applicant which elements are missing and set a period of 14 days for the submission of those elements to the assessing competent authority.
Where at the expiry of that period the supplementary dossiers contain all the elements provided for in Article 7, the assessing competent authority shall, without delay, proceed in accordance with paragraph 1.
3. ...
Before the end of the period stated in paragraph 1, the applicant shall forward the supplementary summary dossiers to the assessing competent authority, excluding any information in respect of which confidentiality has been requested and justified by the applicant pursuant to Article 63 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.
4. The assessing competent authority shall make the supplementary summary dossier available to the public, without delay, excluding any information in respect of which confidentiality has been requested and justified by the applicant pursuant to Article 63 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, unless there is an overriding public interest in its disclosure.
5. At the request of a competent authority, the applicant shall make available the dossiers submitted for the approval and subsequent renewals of the approval, where it has access to them.
6. Where the supplementary dossiers have not been submitted by the date referred to in Article 6(3), or where at the end of the period set for the submission of the missing elements in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article the supplementary dossiers still do not contain all the elements provided for in Article 7, the assessing competent authority shall, without delay, inform the applicant and the other competent authorities that the application is inadmissible and of the reasons why it is inadmissible.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/844/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-844/article-8
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