Article 5
Examination of notifications and request for submission of dossiers to designated rapporteur Member States 1. For each active substance for which a Member State has been designated rapporteur, it shall examine the notifications referred to in Article 4(2) and, at the latest three months after the time limit referred to in Article 4(1), report to the Commission on the admissibility of the notifications received taking into account the criteria as referred to in Annex V, Part 1. 2. The Commission shall refer the reports referred to in paragraph 1 within three months from the receipt thereof to the committee for further examination concerning their admissibility, taking into account the criteria as referred to in Annex V, Part 1. Following that examination, a regulation shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19 of the Directive establishing the list of active substances, adopted for evaluation with a view to their possible inclusion in Annex I to the Directive. Only active substances for which at least one notification was considered admissible in accordance with the provisions of the first subparagraph shall be included in that Regulation. 3. In the list referred to in paragraph 2, certain active substances with similar structures or chemical properties may be grouped together; if an active substance has been notified with different compositions which may lead to different toxicological properties or have different environmental effects, those compositions may be listed separately. 4. For each active substance adopted for assessment, the Regulation referred to in paragraph 2 shall specify: (a) the names and addresses of all notifiers who have made notifications in accordance with Article 4(1) and (2) and which have been considered to be admissible following their examination in accordance with the first subparagraph of paragraph 2; (b) the name of the Member State designated as rapporteur; this will be the same Member State as the one designated in Annex I unless an imbalance has become apparent in the number of active substances attributed to the different Member States; (c) the time limit for the submission to the rapporteur Member State of the dossiers referred to in Article 6, which shall be a period of 12 months; (d) the same time limit for the submission to the rapporteur Member States by any interested parties of relevant information which may contribute to the evaluation, in particular with regard to the potentially dangerous effects of the active substance or its residues on human and animal health and on the environment. 5. From the time of the adoption of the Regulation referred to in paragraph 2, if a Member State envisages taking action to withdraw from the market or to restrict severely the use of a plant protection product containing an active substance listed in that Regulation, where that action is based on information contained in the dossiers referred to in Article 6 or the report referred to in Article 8, the Member State shall inform the Commission and the other Members States as soon as possible, citing the reasons for its intended action. 6. When, during the assessment and evaluation referred to in Articles 6 and 7, an imbalance becomes apparent in the responsibilities borne by the Member States as rapporteurs, it may be decided, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 19 of the Directive, to replace a Member State originally designated as rapporteur for a particular active substance by another Member State. In such cases, the original rapporteur Member State shall inform the notifiers concerned and shall transfer to the newly designated rapporteur Member State all correspondence and information which it has received as rapporteur Member State for the active substance concerned. The original Member State shall return the fee referred to in Article 12, except the part referred to in Article 12(2)(d) to the notifiers concerned. The newly designated rapporteur Member State shall then require the notifiers to pay the fee referred to in Article 12, except the part referred to in Article 12(2)(d). 7. When a notifier decides to end its participation in the work programme for an active substance, he shall inform at the same time the rapporteur Member State, the Commission and the other notifiers for the substance concerned, mentioning the reasons. Where a notifier ends his participation or fails to fulfil his obligations provided for in this Regulation, the procedures provided for in Article 7 or Article 8 shall not be continued for his dossier. When a notifier agrees with another producer that the notifier shall be replaced for the purposes of further participation in the work programmes under this Regulation, the notifier and the other producer shall inform the rapporteur Member State and the Commission by a common declaration, agreeing that the other producer shall replace the original notifier in carrying out the notifier's duties as set out in Articles 6, 7 and 8; they shall ensure that the other notifiers for the substance concerned are informed at the same time. In such a case, the other producer may be liable for any fees remaining payable under the regime established by the rapporteur Member State pursuant to Article 12.