Article 9U.K.Receipt of the application
1.The application shall be submitted to the Commission in paper or electronic form. The date of submission of an application to the Commission shall be the date on which the application is entered in the Commission's mail registry. This date is made available to the public by appropriate means.
2.The Commission shall mark the documents making up the application with the date of receipt and the file number allocated to the application.
The Member State or the third-country authorities or the applicant established in the third country in question shall receive an acknowledgement of receipt indicating at least the following:
(a)the file number;
(b)the name to be registered;
(c)the number of pages received; and
(d)the date of receipt of the application.