Part 2Precision bred organisms: release, marketing and risk assessments

Release and marketing: general provisions

23Advisory bodies: time limits etc

(1)

Regulations may—

(a)

make provision for a reporting period relating to an organism not to run while the information requested by any information notice given in relation to the organism has not been provided;

(b)

make provision for a relevant application relating to an organism to be treated as withdrawn if the information requested by any information notice given in relation to the organism is not provided within a prescribed period.

(2)

In this section—

“information notice” means an information notice under section 7 (report by advisory committee) or 12 (report by welfare advisory body);

“relevant application” means a marketing notice or an application for a precision bred animal marketing authorisation;

“reporting period” means—

(a)

a 90 day period mentioned in section 7(2), or

(b)

a reporting period within the meaning of section 12.

(3)

For the purposes of this section—

(a)

an information notice is given in relation to an organism if it is given in connection with a relevant application relating to the organism, and

(b)

a reporting period relates to an organism if it applies for the purposes of a relevant application relating to the organism.

(4)

Regulations under subsection (1) are subject to the negative procedure.