Any entity, public or private, being a company, corporation, firm, enterprise, institution or authority, legally established in the United Kingdom, may submit to the competent authority an application to be recognised as a monitoring organisation.

To be recognised as a monitoring organisation, an applicant shall demonstrate that it fulfils all requirements provided in Article 8(2) of Regulation (EU) No 995/2010 and in Articles 5 to 8 of this Regulation.

The F2competent authority shall acknowledge the receipt of an application and provide the applicant with a reference number within 10 working days from the date of receipt.

It shall also provide the applicant with an indicative time limit within which it will decide on the application. The F2competent authority shall inform the applicant anytime it revises the indicative time limit due to the necessity to obtain additional information or documents for the assessment of the application.

Where three months have lapsed since the receipt of an application or the F3competent authority's last written communication to an applicant, whichever is later, and the F4competent authority has not adopted a recognition decision or rejected the application, the F4competent authority shall inform the applicant in writing of the progress in assessment of the application.

The first subparagraph may apply more than once to the handling of one application.

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