CHAPTER VU.K.TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 17U.K.[F1Initial authorisation of food enzymes]

[F21.This Article applies for the purpose of the authorisation (“initial authorisation”) of food enzymes which are to be included in the domestic list of food enzymes published and maintained under Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 when it is first established by the Authority. The initial authorisation of food enzymes must be made in accordance with this Article.]

2.Interested parties may submit applications for the [F3initial authorisation] of a food enzyme F4....

[F5The deadline for submitting such applications is to be prescribed by the appropriate authority.]

3.The [F6Authority] shall establish a Register of all food enzymes to be considered for [F7initial authorisation] in respect of which an application complying with the validity criteria to be laid down in accordance with Article 9(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 [establishing a common authorisation procedure for food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings] has been submitted in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Article ([F8referred to in this Regulation as the ‘Register’]). The Register shall be made available to the public.

The [F9appropriate authority] shall submit the applications to the Authority for its opinion.

4.[F10In] accordance with the procedure laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 [establishing a common authorisation procedure for food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings], [F11the appropriate authority must determine the authorisation status of all of the applications for initial authorisation entered in the Register] once the Authority has issued an opinion on each food enzyme included in the Register.

However, by way of derogation from that procedure:

(a)Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1331/2008 [establishing a common authorisation procedure for food additives, food enzymes and food flavourings] shall not apply to the Authority's adoption of its opinion;

F12(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F134A.This Article, and the Register, shall cease to have effect at the start of the day after the day on which the appropriate authority has determined the authorisation status of all initial authorisation applications in the Register.]

5.If necessary, any appropriate transitional measures for the purposes of this Article which are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Regulation, inter alia, by supplementing it, [F14are to be prescribed by the appropriate authority].

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