The Genetically Modified Food and Feed (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

21.  In Article 17—

(a) for paragraphs 1 and 2, substitute—

“1.   To obtain the authorisation referred to in Article 16(2), an application must be submitted in accordance with the following provisions.

2.   The application must be sent to the Food Safety Authority, who must—.

(a) acknowledge receipt of the application, and confirm the date of its receipt, in writing to the applicant within 14 days of its receipt;

(b) make the summary of the dossier referred to in paragraph 3(1) available to the public.”;

(b) in paragraph 6, for “Community”, substitute “ retained EU ”;

(c) for paragraph 7, substitute—

“7.   The appropriate authority, having first consulted the Food Safety Authority, may prescribe rules concerning the preparation and presentation of the application.”;

(d) in paragraph 8, for “Before the date of application of this Regulation, the Authority shall”, substitute “ The Food Safety Authority must ”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 21 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c.1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1