{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-414/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-414/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/414",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 414/2013 of 6 May 2013 specifying a procedure for the authorisation of same biocidal products in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-414",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Authorisations and changes of same products",
  "text": "1. A same product shall have a different authorisation number than that of the related reference product.\nOn all other aspects, the content of the authorisation of a same product shall be identical with that of the related reference product except in terms of the information in respect of which the products differ. The competent authority shall record the link between same products and related reference products.\n2. Changes of a same product or of a related reference product shall be notified or applied for in accordance with Implementing Regulation (EU) No 354/2013 independently of each other.\nAuthorisations of a same product or of a related reference product may be changed or cancelled independently of each other.\nHowever, in the evaluation of a proposed change of a same product or of a related reference product, the competent authority... shall consider the appropriateness of cancelling or amending the authorisation of other products to which the product is linked ... as referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/720), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 204(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/720), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 204(3)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/720), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 204(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Chemicals (Health and Safety) and Genetically Modified Organisms (Contained Use) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/720), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 204(3)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/414/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:41.448117+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."
}