{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-456/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-456/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/456",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/456 of 19 March 2018 on the procedural steps of the consultation process for determination of novel food status in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 of the European Parliament and of the Council on novel foods (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-456",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Procedures for verifying the validity of a consultation request",
  "text": "1. The Food Safety Authority shall without delay verify whether the consultation request complies with the requirements of Article 4.\n2. Where the food business operator submits insufficient information in the consultation request, the Food Safety Authority shall request the food business operator to provide additional information or make the relevant updates to the consultation request within the time period specified by the Food Safety Authority.\n3. The consultation request shall be considered not valid where:\n(a) the food business operator does not provide requested additional information or updated consultation request within the period specified by the Food Safety Authority;\n(b) the submitted additional information is insufficient to conclude that the consultation request is valid.\n4. The Food Safety Authority shall decide on the validity of the consultation request and without delay inform the food business operator, the appropriate authority of the decision. Where the consultation request is considered not valid, the Food Safety Authority shall provide the reasons for that conclusion.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Novel Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/702), regs. 1, 69(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Novel Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/702), regs. 1, 69(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/456/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:13.343205+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."
}