Commission Decision of 16 December 2009 laying down guidelines for the management of the Community Rapid Information System ‘RAPEX’ established under Article 12 and of the notification procedure established under Article 11 of Directive 2001/95/EC (the General Product Safety Directive) (notified under document C(2009) 9843) (2010/15/EU) (repealed)

3. Notifications

Where all notification criteria are met, a Member State prepares a notification and sends it to the Commission using the RAPEX application. The standard notification form is provided in Appendix 1 to the Guidelines.

All notifications sent through the RAPEX application under Article 11 of the GPSD are classified in the system as ‘Article 11 notifications’.

The RAPEX Contact Point of the notifying Member State ensures that all notifications meet all the notification requirements provided for in Article 11 of the GPSD.

The following Chapters in Part II of the Guidelines are relevant to the Article 11 notification procedure:

• Chapter 3.2 on the content of notifications (completeness, scope, updating of data, responsibility for the information transmitted),

• Chapter 3.3 on confidentiality (disclosure of information, exceptions to the general rule, requests for confidentiality, treatment of notifications covered by confidentiality and withdrawal of the confidentiality request),

• Chapter 3.4 on the examination of notifications by the Commission (correctness, completeness, requests for additional information, investigation),

• Chapter 3.5 on the validation of notifications,

• Chapter 3.8 on the permanent withdrawal of a notification from the RAPEX application (withdrawal situations, requesting Member State, content of the request, withdrawal decision).

Member States submit an ‘Article 11 notification’ as soon as possible and by the deadlines specified in Appendix 3 to the Guidelines at the latest. Chapter 3.10 of Part II of the Guidelines on deadlines applies.