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Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC
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Article 37U.K.Period for examination
1.The [F1competent authority] examining the application shall decide within 12 months of receiving it whether the requirements for authorisation are met.
Where the [F1competent authority] needs additional information, it shall set a period for the applicant to supply it. In that case, the 12-month period shall be extended by the additional period granted by the [F1competent authority]. That additional period shall be a maximum of 6 months and shall cease at the moment when the additional information is received by the [F1competent authority]. Where at the end of that period the applicant has not submitted the missing elements, the [F1competent authority] shall inform the applicant that the application is inadmissible.
2.The time limits provided for in paragraph 1 shall be suspended during the application of the procedure set out in Article 38.
3.For an application for authorisation of a plant protection product containing an active substance not yet approved, the [F2competent authority] examining the application shall start the evaluation as soon as [F3the draft assessment report for that active substance is circulated in accordance with Article 12(1)(a)]. In case the application concerns the same plant protection product and the same uses as contained in the dossier referred to in Article 8, the [F2competent authority] shall decide on the application at the latest within six months of the active substance being approved.
[F43A.Where Article 35(2) applies in relation to an application, the requirement in paragraph 3 to decide on the application within 6 months of the active substance being approved is to be read as a requirement to decide on the application within 6 months of the earliest date on which the active substance is approved by one of the competent authorities which received the application for authorisation.]
4.[F5Where Article 35(2) applies in relation to an application, the competent authorities which received the application for authorisation] shall at the latest within 120 days of the receipt of the assessment report and the copy of the authorisation of the [F6competent authority] examining the application decide on the application as referred to in Article 36(2) and (3).
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F1Words in Art. 37(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 5(13)(a) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Art. 37(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 5(13)(a) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in Art. 37(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 5(13)(b) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Art. 37(3A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 5(13)(c) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in Art. 37(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 5(13)(d)(i) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F6Words in Art. 37(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Plant Protection Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/556), regs. 1(1), 5(13)(d)(ii) (with Sch. 1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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