Transitional provision for marketing
18. Where the National Assembly for Wales has received an application for consent to market genetically modified organisms before 31st December 2002 pursuant to the 1992 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 National Assembly for Wales 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 Regulation by 17th January 2003;
(c)the application shall be treated as having been received by the National Assembly for Wales for the purposes of regulation 24 on submission of the information required by paragraph (b) above;
(d)if, by 31st December 2002, the National Assembly for Wales has forwarded to the Commission the information required by regulation 16(2) of the 1992 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) above in the light of its obligations under these Regulations; and
(e)if the information required by paragraph (b) above has not been submitted by 17th January 2003, the National Assembly for Wales may refuse to proceed with the application.