Transitional provision of marketing
17. Where the Department has received an application for consent to market genetically modified organisms before 15th April 2003 pursuant to the 1994 Regulations and has not yet determined that application, or, in a case where the Commission is required to take a decision in accordance with Article 13(3) of the 1990 Directive, that decision has not yet been taken –
(a)the application shall be subject to the provisions of these Regulations;
(b)the applicant shall submit to the Department such further information, additional to that already provided in connection with the application, as is necessary in order to comply with the requirements of these Regulations by 17th July 2003;
(c)the application shall be treated as having been received by the Department for the purposes of regulation 23 on submission of the information required by paragraph (b);
(d)if, by 15th April 2003, the Department has forwarded to the Commission the information required by regulation 16(2) of the 1994 Regulations, it shall supplement it and, if it considers it to be necessary, revise it on receipt of the further information required by paragraph (b) in the light of its obligations under these Regulations, and
(e)if the information required by paragraph (b) has not been submitted by 17th July 2003, the Department may refuse to proceed with the application.