Article 5
1. Where a request submitted under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council(7) is transformed into an application under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, in accordance with Article 46(1) of that Regulation, the national competent authority of the Member State in which the request was submitted shall, without delay, ask the applicant to submit a complete dossier in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003. 2. The national competent authority shall: (a) acknowledge receipt of the information supplied by the applicant in accordance with paragraph 1 within 14 days of the date of its receipt. The acknowledgement shall state the date of receipt: of the information; (b) inform the Authority without delay; (c) make the request and the information supplied by the applicant in accordance with paragraph 1 available to the Authority; (d) where applicable, make available to the Authority the initial assessment report provided for in Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 258/97, as well as any comments or objections which may have been made by Member States or the Commission under Article 6(4) of that Regulation. 3. The Authority shall: (a) inform the other Member States and the Commission without delay that the request under Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 has been transformed into an application under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and make the application and any supplementary information supplied by the applicant available to them; (b) make the summary of the dossier referred to in Article 5(3)(l) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 available to the public. 4. The date of receipt of the application for the purpose of Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 shall be the date of receipt by the Authority of the information referred to in points (c) and (d) of paragraph 2 of this Article. 5. The transformed application shall further be processed as any other application under Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.