Article 29 Scrutiny of a cancellation request

If the F1Secretary of State does not deem the cancellation request to be inadmissible in accordance with Article 28(2), F2the Secretary of State shall communicate the cancellation request to F3... the third-country authorities or the applicant F4... and shall invite him to file observations within two months from the issuance date of such invitation. Any observations received within this two months period shall be communicated to the author of the request.

In the course of the examination of a cancellation request, the F5Secretary of State shall invite the parties to submit comments on the communications received from the other parties within a period of two months from the issuance date of such request.

If F6... the third-country authorities or the applicant F7... or the author of a cancellation request does not file any comments in response, or does not respect the time periods, the F8Secretary of State shall rule on the request.

A decision to cancel the protection of the traditional term concerned shall be taken by the F9Secretary of State on the basis of the evidence available to F10the Secretary of State. F11The Secretary of State shall consider whether the grounds referred to in Article 36 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/33 are fulfilled.

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After making a decision whether to cancel the protection of the traditional term, the Secretary of State must publish, in such manner as appears appropriate to the Secretary of State from time to time, a notice:

Where multiple cancellation requests are lodged in respect of a traditional term and where it can be concluded from a preliminary examination of one or more such requests that it is no longer possible to continue to protect a traditional term, the F14Secretary of State may suspend the other cancellation procedures. The Secretary of State shall notify the parties that submitted the other cancellation requests of any decision affecting them which was taken in the course of the procedure.

Where a decision cancelling a traditional term is adopted, cancellation procedures which have been suspended shall be deemed to be closed and the authors of the cancellation requests in question shall be duly informed.

F15Where the Secretary of State publishes a notice under paragraph 3a relating to a decision of the Secretary of State to cancel a traditional term, the Secretary of State must remove the name from the register F16as soon as possible after the notice period for the notice has expired,, while maintaining a record of the cancellation. F17The cancellation takes effect immediately after the name of the traditional term is removed from the register.