Article 6
1. Where a notification concerning a product including its use as feed submitted under Article 13 of Directive 2001/18/EC is transformed into an application under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, in accordance with Article 46(3) of that Regulation, the national competent authority, within the meaning of Directive 2001/18/EC, of the Member State in which the notification was submitted shall ask without delay the notifier to submit a complete dossier in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003. 2. The national competent authority shall: (a) acknowledge receipt of the information supplied by the notifier 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 notification and the information supplied by the notifier in accordance with paragraph 1 available to the Authority; (d) where applicable, make available to the Authority the assessment report provided for in Article 14(2) of Directive 2001/18/EC. 3. The Authority shall: (a) inform the other Member States and the Commission without delay that the notification under Article 13 of Directive 2001/18/EC has been transformed into an application under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 and shall make the application and any supplementary information supplied by the notifier available to them; (b) make the summary of the dossier referred to in Article 17(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 18(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 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.