Article 7
1. Where a request submitted under Article 7 of Council Directive 82/471/EEC(8), concerning products produced from GMOs, is transformed into an application under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003, in accordance with Article 46(4) of that Regulation, the Commission shall ask the applicant without delay to submit a complete dossier in accordance with Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003. The applicant shall send the complete dossier to the Member States and to the Commission. 2. The Commission 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 dossier provided for in Article 7(1) of Directive 82/471/EEC. 3. The Authority shall make: (a) any supplementary information supplied by the applicant available to the Member States and the Commission; (b) 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. SECTION 3 Supplementation of requests under Directive 70/524/EEC by an application under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003